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How Long Things Live
Overview
- Solid science presented in an entertaining and informative way
- Filled with fascinating "did you know?" facts about extremely short- and long-lived creatures, as well as those in between
A gall midge hatches, breeds, and dies in a 3-hour period. A bowhead whale can live for 200 years, a quahog clam 400. And box huckleberries growing today sprouted some 13,000 years ago. This fact-filled science book explains how and why some 99 animals and plants--including dragonflies, horses, dogs, snakes, humans, tortoises, sequoias, and jellyfish--live as long, or as briefly, as they do.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780811736220
- ISBN-10: 0811736229
- Publisher: Stackpole Books
- Publish Date: January 2010
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.66 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 176
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