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Pyenson, Nick.
Whales.
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Spying
on
whales
: the
past
,
present
, and
future
of
earth
's
most
awesome
creatures
/ Nick Pyenson.
by
Pyenson, Nick.
Viking, 2018.
Call #:
599.5 P995s
Subjects
Whales
.
ISBN:
9780735224568 (hc.)
Description:
xii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-306) and index.
Contents:
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 --
Present
. The age of giants ; The ocean'
s
utmost bones ; A discovery at Hvalfjörður ; Physics and flensing knives ; The limits of living things --
Future
. Arctic time machines ; Shifting baselines ; All the ways to go extinct ; Evolution in the Anthropocene ; Whalebone Junction.
Summary:
"A leading scientist dives into the secret lives of
whales
, from their evolutionary
past
to today'
s
cutting edge of science.
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 two hundred 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 fifty million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did their ancestors return to the sea from land--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
."--Dust jacket.
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