Awesome Innovations Inspired by Whales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Innovations Inspired by Whales write by Jim Corrigan. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Awesome Innovations Inspired by Whales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whales are the world’s largest animals. They roam the ocean in search of food, calling to each other with song. Humans nearly hunted whales to extinction. Now we learn from them, making better wind turbines and water filters. Whales may also help with medicine and climate change. They are awesome.
Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins
Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins write by Jim Corrigan. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few species are as smart and playful as dolphins. These speedsters of the sea live in social groups. They have taught us many useful lessons about life in the ocean. With natural sonar, they can swim and hunt while blindfolded. Scientists study dolphins to learn more about intelligence in animals and in humans.
Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks
Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks write by Jim Corrigan. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sharks are perfect predators. These toothy fish have super senses for finding prey. We fear sharks but we also learn from them. The study of shark skin has led to many new inventions. Some species can even glow in the dark. New undersea drones swim like sharks. More discoveries await in the awesome world of sharks.
Spying on Whales
Spying on Whales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spying on Whales write by Nick Pyenson. This book was released on 2019-06-25. Spying on Whales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present. Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection--yet there is still so much we don't know about them. Why did it take whales over 50 million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did their ancestors return from land to the sea--and what can their lives tell us about evolution as a whole? Importantly, in the sweepstakes of human-driven habitat and climate change, will whales survive? Nick Pyenson's research has given us the answers to some of our biggest questions about whales. He takes us deep inside the Smithsonian's unparalleled fossil collections, to frigid Antarctic waters, and to the arid desert in Chile, where scientists race against time to document the largest fossil whale site ever found. Full of rich storytelling and scientific discovery, Spying on Whales spans the ancient past to an uncertain future--all to better understand the most enigmatic creatures on Earth.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biomimicry write by Janine M. Benyus. This book was released on 2009-08-11. Biomimicry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
