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  • Monarchs of the Sea

    The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

    by Danna Staaf ...
    From the author of Nursery Earth, a "nimble, fast, surprising, smart, and weird in the very coolest sense of the word" (Sy Montgomery) exploration of the sometimes enormous, often bizarre creatures that ruled the seas long before the first dinosaurs—a Science Friday Book Club PickCephalopods, Earth's first truly substantial animals, are still among us: Their fascinating family tree features squid, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lady and the Octopus

    How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

    by Danna Staaf ...
    Born in a small village in eighteenth-century France, Jeanne Villepreux wasn’t expected to transform marine science.Curious, creative, and clever, Jeanne ventured to Paris by foot as a teenager. After achieving acclaim as a seamstress, she met a wealthy merchant and traveled with him to Sicily, where they married. Rather than settling into a life of domesticity on this beautiful island, she set ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Tentacle Mysteries

    Awesome Octopuses, Spectacular Squid, and the Scientists Who Dug Up Their Secrets

    by Danna Staaf ...
    Perfect for STEM bookshelves comes a fascinating celebration of cephalopods past, present, and future.Did you know that Earth’s first giant animal—Endoceras giganteum—lived two hundred million years before the first dinosaur? Or that some of the most common fossils are not trilobites or tyrannosaurs but coiled seashells called ammonites?These marvelous extinct animals belonged to the same group as ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Nursery Earth

    The Hidden World of Baby Animals and the Amazing Ingenuity of Life

    by Danna Staaf ...
    A first-of-its-kind pop-science journey into the hidden world of baby animalsEntire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies; it's time we paid them more attention. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf invites readers to explore these tiny, secret lives, revealing some of nature's strangest and most ingenious workings. A salamander embryo ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives

    A Natural History of Cephalopods

    by Danna Staaf ...
    Series series The Lives of the Natural World
    An engaging and beautifully illustrated introduction to some of the world’s most interesting and charismatic marine creaturesDive deep into the fascinating world of cephalopods—octopuses, squid, cuttlefish, and the mysterious nautilus—to discover the astonishing diversity of this unique group of intelligent invertebrates and their many roles in the marine ecosystem. Organized by marine habitat, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Squid Empire

    The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

    by Danna Staaf ...
    Narrated by Emily Durante ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Nursery Earth

    The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World

    Narrated by Norma Butikofer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    It’s time to pay attention to baby animals. From egg to tadpole, chick to fledgling, they offer scientists a window into questions of immense importance: how do genes influence health? Which environmental factors support – or obstruct – life? Entire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies. At any given moment, babies represent the majority of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Lady and the Octopus

    How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

    by Danna Staaf ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    "Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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