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Tilbury House,U.S. 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.
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Tilbury House,U.S. 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.
£14.38
Tilbury House,U.S. The Pier at the End of the World
What can you see beneath an old, old pier on the edge of a cold sea? An ugly wolffish munching a live sea urchin, a hermit crab switching shells, a garden of anemones, a starfish eating a clam, a 35-pound hundred-year-old lobster guarding his domain, and more strange and wonderful creatures than you can imagine….
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