Don't Mess with Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures

Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins--you can choose your poison in the ocean. Venoms are often but not always defensive weapons. The banded sea krait, an aquatic snake, wriggles into undersea caves to prey on vicious moray eels, killing them with one of the world's most deadly neurotoxins, which it injects through fangs that resemble hypodermic needles.

Author: Paul Erickson
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780884485513

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2018
School Library Journal 12/21/2018 pg. 71
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 44
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Erickson, Paul: - Writer, photographer, and video producer Paul Erickson creates exhibits, websites, guides, and videos for zoos, museums, and aquariums including the New England Aquarium, the Houston Zoo, Zoo Miami, the Friends of the Los Angeles River, the Museum of Science and Discovery, and many others. He has authored or co-authored numerous magazine articles and three books about undersea life. His book The Pier at the End of the World was named an Outstanding Science Trade Book of 2016 by the National Science Teachers Association.Martinez, Andrew: - ANDREW MARTINEZ (Danbury, MA) specializes in images of the undersea world and is the author and photographer of Marine Life of the North Atlantic. He travels the world to photograph sea life, and was the photographer for The Pier at the End of the World named an Outstanding Science Trade Book of 2016 by the National Science Teachers Association.