Marine Animals in Comics. Volume 7

Iron mollusks, transparent salps, rays with their "devilish pouches", the cunning flute-nose, ancient long-lived sharks, and crabs wearing "coats" made of poisonous sea sponges... And also peacock groupers resembling a starry sky and squids flashing up to 4 times a second! These are just some of the many heroes in the latest volume of the French series "Marine Animals in Comics". Yes, oceans, seas, and their coasts are full of the strangest animals that evolution has endowed with amazing abilities. Fish, mollusks, crustaceans, sharks, whales, loons, puffins, and many other inhabitants of aquatic and semi-aquatic environments hurry to tell about themselves, their neighbors, friends... and sometimes enemies! The main theme in these stories becomes some aspect of the animal's life: an unusual adaptive mechanism, a clever hunting strategy, or complex relationships with other inhabitants of the ocean. The book also touches on the pressing issue of invasive species disrupting the natural balance in new regions. Sometimes newcomers become competitors to endemic species, and sometimes even a real threat to local biodiversity! As always with the authors of the series, carefully vetted scientific information is presented in a humorous style, and the educational workbook at the end of the volume allows curious readers to reinforce what they have read. It is particularly noteworthy that the authors not only know how to joke but also sincerely admire the wonders of the ocean. How could it be otherwise when, to this day, scientists have explored only 15% of the ocean floor... Which means new discoveries and even more stories about marine animals await us!