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Readers will tag along with scientists as they uncover intriguing adaptations that help animals survive in their environments.

"Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip across the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem. ... photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit this diverse reef in Australia. Simple graphs show how much the reef has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the anecdotes, strugles, and personal stories with the nation's top biomedical scientists, and the crisis of taxpayers spending billions of dollars in funding a dysfunctional research system.

A picture book biography of Joan Procter, an English woman who loved reptiles and, while a curator of reptiles at the London Zoo in the 1920s, worked with Komodo dragons.

"Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Everglades ecosystem in Florida. ... photographs highlight the animals and plants that inhabit this unique wetland area. Simple graphs show how much the Everglades have changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it"--Provided by publisher.

"Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip across the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem. ... photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit this diverse reef in Australia. Simple graphs show how much the reef has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of essays that argue that collaboration between Wikipedia and libraries, cultural heritage institutions, and other communities of knowledge should be encouraged.

Explains how body farms are used to help forensic anthropologists and scientists better understand how the human body decomposes in various conditions. Includes photographs of bodies in different stages of decomposition.

Hoping to get her life back on track, seventeen-year-old Abby plans to find out what happened when her mother, a co-host of a ghost hunting reality show, who disappeared five years ago in a "haunted" cave in Arizona.

"Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Amazon rain forest ecosystem. ... photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the world's largest tropical rain forest stretching across eight countries in South America. Simple graphs show how much the rain forest has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it"--Provided by publisher.