Why is the sea salty? Does the ocean ever freeze? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in this fact-filled question-and-answer guide to life forms along the ocean's edge. Learn about barnacles, starfish, sea anemones, mollusks, arthropods, crustaceans, tide pools, and a host of other shoreline plants and animals.
Here's a sample of other books in this Dover category
Hawaiian Plants and Animals Coloring Book by Y. S. Green Forty-four excellent illustrations of islands' characteristic flora and fauna: mango, breadfruit, prickly poppy, tree fern, pineapple, slipper lobster, damselfly, cone-headed grasshopper, house gecko, much else. Captions.
The Days of the Dinosaur Coloring Book by Matthew Kalmenoff Here are 39 accurately rendered prehistoric creatures set in their natural habitats. Tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, stegosaurus, and many other Mesozoic monsters are shown grazing, stalking prey, flying, fighting, and more.
Bats: Biology, Behavior and Folklore by Glover Morrill Allen Covering both mythology and ecology, this fascinating book abounds in precise, accessible information that will interest even those who have never given bats a second thought. "A superb job . . ." — Quarterly Review of Biology. 58 black-and-white illustrations.
Dinosaur ABC Coloring Book by Llyn Hunter Dramatic renderings of 29 prehistoric beasts, including the herbivorous Brachiosaurus and "helmeted" Corythosaurus — shown in alphabetical order. Background information, coloring suggestions.
Plants, Man and Life by Edgar Anderson A history of human and plant interactions. Recounts the continuing history of weeds and cultivated plants around the world, from garden-variety flowers and vegetables to sources for poisons and drugs. 16 black-and-white illustrations.
