"Discover the world's most poisonous reptiles, insects, and other deadly creatures" --

Highlights both the controversial whaling trade and the tactics that the Sea Shepherd, along with its staff and volunteers, uses in an attempt to cripple its foundation. This action-packed, adrenaline-fueled environmental adventure series follows the group's three-month sojourn across the icy Antarctic waters at the far end of the globe.

Science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving...

Illustrations and simple text describe how twelve different animals, including pandas, fruit bats, cheetahs, and gray whales, raise their young.

Outlines the fundamentals of drawing dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from fossils, models, and toys.