Spying on whales : the past, present, and future of Earth's most awesome creatures
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735224568
- ISBN: 0735224560
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Physical Description:
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xii, 322 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: Past. How to know a whale ; Mammals like no other ; The stories bones tell ; Time travel on the fossil whale highway ; The afterlife of a whale ; Rock picks and lasers ; Cracking the case of Cerro Ballena -- Part II: Present. The age of giants ; The ocean's utmost bones ; A discovery at Hvalfjörður ; Physics and flensing knives ; The limits of living things -- Part III: Future. Arctic time machines ; Shifting baselines ; All the ways to go extinct ; Evolution in the Anthropocene ; Whalebone Junction. |
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Subject: | Whales Whales -- Evolution Whales, Fossil |
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Pemberton and District Public Library | 599.5 PYE (Text) | 31894000533116 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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