Extreme Science: Chasing the Ghost Bat: And Other Mysteries of Nature (Extreme Science)

By Peter Jedicke and Scientific American

From the pages of "Scientific American "comes the latest information and explorations into the bizarre realm of the natural world, including: -Our oldest relatives and the discovery of missing links-Strange predators, from flesh-eating chimps to the lethal Komodo dragon-Strange plant life, such as the carnivorous Venus's flytrap and the Voodoo lily-Extinct monsters, and giant, flightless, flesh-eating birds-Mysterious denizens of the deep, such as the giant squid and the slime hag-Insect oddities: fire ants, singing caterpillars, and Africanized bees

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312268181
• ISBN13: 9780312268183
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"