Solid science presented in an entertaining and informative wayFilled
with fascinating "did you know?" facts about extremely short- and
long-lived creatures, as well as those in betweenA 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.