Text and explanatory photographs describe petroleum and its uses, examine the harmful effects of oil spills, and discuss how such environmental disasters can be cleaned up or prevented.
Discusses the life, training, and skills of zoologist Randall S. Wells who studies bottlenose dolphins in Florida and relates information he has learned about dolphins during his research.
Describes Merlin Tuttle's interest in bats, his study of them in their natural habitat, and his work to protect them through such efforts as the organization he founded, Bat Conservation International.
Meet more than one hundred frogs--the camouflaged and the colorful, the plain and the charismatic, some over a foot long and others small enough to sit on a dime.
Describes how biologists search for animal species unknown to science and the urgent need to protect wild habitats to keep these newly discovered species from becoming extinct.
