EAN: 9780226810478

LIFE SCULPTED - ANTHONY J MARTIN GEBUNDEN

As the co-discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur and a popular science author 
Anthony J. Martin is an expert at explaining his fossil-finding work to broad audiences. In
this engaging book  Martin uses modern and fossil traces to introduce readers to a menagerie of
animals and other lifeforms that dig  crunch  bore  and otherwise reshape our planet. We meet
elephants that dig ballroom-sized caves alongside volcanoes  parrotfishes that chew coral reefs
and poop out sandy beaches  dinosaur-eating crocodiles  and moon snails that drill into clams 
or even other moon snails. In a detective story that spans millions of years  ranging from
microbes to whales  Martin shows how when life got hard  life got boring  using bodies and
behavior to hide  eat  attack  and defend  affecting both our world and our understanding of
evolution  climate  and life itself--

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