miscellanea

Looks at the strange forms life on Earth first took, the age of the dinosaurs, and the first people to live in groups, hunt, travel and farm thousands of years ago.

Provides information on cancer, including risk factors, strategies for coping with the disease, and treatment options.

Text and photographs introduce wild animals from tigers to monkeys.

"A wide-ranging survey of exotic animals with peculiar adaptations, from flies that lay their eggs inside fire ants to lizards that squirt blood from their eyes"--Provided by publisher.