Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth, Paperback

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""Davies's chatty, funny text and Layton's colorful illustrations will pull kidsinto this fascinating book about survival. . . . Exciting biology for the classroom."" -- Booklist (starred review) From the persevering emperor penguins of the South Pole to the brave bacteria inside bubbling volcanoes, from the hardy reptiles of the driest deserts to the squash-proof creatures of the deepest seabeds, animals have adapted to survive in conditions that would kill a human faster than you can say ""coffin."" Discover how they do it in this amazing natural history book from a celebrated team -- and find out who wins the title of the toughest animal of them all.