"Describes how animals use camouflage and mimicry as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.

A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works
 
Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change—a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze—caused...

An ant hurries over the rocky ground. It pauses beside a dark pebble to clean a bit of dust off its antenna. Unfortunately for the ant, this is the last thing it will ever do. Because what looks like a pebble is actually an assassin bug in disguise ... In the animal kingdom, survival is the name of the game and not everything is as it seems. A number of animals rely on particularly clever tricks to fool predators or prey. A baby bird mimics a poisonous...

Trickiest! introduces readers to some of the slyest animals on the planet.

Presents a children's book about the various kinds of creatures that have spots including cows, ladybugs, pandas, butterflies, and tigers.

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers to the career of biologist. Includes infographics, an activity, glossary, and index."--

More than thirty years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life. He argues that there remains zan irresistible consilience of evidence for rejecting Darwinian cumulative selection as the major driving force of evolution.y From the origin of life to the origin of human language, the great divisions in the...

A picture book about transformations.

Shapes, colors, or markings--these are all different ways animals disguise themselves to survive. Some mammals, birds, and fish use unusual camouflage to hide in plain sight.

Offers a look at how the impact of a giant asteroid changed the planet and may have caused the extinction of the massive beasts who ruled the planet for millions of years.