The Ocean's Menagerie : How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

Drew Harvell

€ 25.99

A transporting, mind-expanding exploration of the deep sea and the strange, astonishing and ancient creatures who inhabit it –revealing their hidden worlds and all we can learn from it.
Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms the size of cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on Earth, seeming to defy the rules and logic of biology.
From Hawaii to the Salish Sea, from the Caribbean to Indonesia, leading marine ecologist Dr Drew Harvell dives deep into the ocean to uncover the incredible underwater ‘superpowers’ of spineless creatures. We meet corals many times stronger than steel or concrete, sponges who create potent chemical compounds to fight off disease, and sea stars who garden the coastlines, keeping all the other nearby species in perfect balance. As our planet dramatically and rapidly changes, the innovations of these wondrous creatures hold ever more important secrets to our own survival.