Simple text and illustrations introduce the characteristics of the major groups of vertebrates: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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Using hands-on natural science projects, explores and explains different types and characteristics of fungi.
Describes how seeds are formed, how they grow, what they look like, how they reproduce, and how they make food and provides instructions for related hands-on science projects.
Describes the parts of different flowers, their role in the plants' reproduction, how to grow flowers, and how to press them. Includes activities and experiments related to flowers.
Details the life cycles and characteristics of plants that use seeds to reproduce.
Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, and life cycle of crickets and grasshoppers. Includes related activities.
An introduction to the life cycles and characteristics of bryophytes, or plants without seeds, such as mosses and ferns.
Examines dolphin intelligence and the ways in which dolphins communicate among themselves and with humans.
Describes the physical characteristics, reproduction processes, habitats, and metamorphoses of snails and slugs and provides instructions for related hands-on science projects.
Follows a scientist and his team as they uncover a massive dinosaur graveyard in the Sahara Desert and discover the skeletons of two new species.
Enter the underwater world of fish and learn how they are adapted to life in water. Includes ideas for experiments.
Describes the experiences of an ethnobotanist in South America as he learns from Trio Indians the medicinal value of rainforest plants, and struggles to record the data before these ancient traditions vanish.
Discusses the characteristics of fungi and describes specific members of this class, including mushrooms, molds, and lichens.
