"Delve into the amazing world of sea monsters -- find out about the man-eating legends of the seas as well as real-life terrors of the deep and their gruesome feeding habits.
A collection of eyewitness reports of sea monsters which have been sighted as long ago as 700 B.C. and as recently as 1976.
Sailors have claimed to see everything from large sea serpents to giant octopus-like creatures. Readers will learn about the many kinds of sea monsters reported and why some people believe the stories are true.
More recently, water monsters have been reported in lakes and rivers throughout the United States. Sea monsters such as these have frightened people for centuries. They have also made their way into the books, movies, and games we love.
How big is a giant squid? What is a dragonfish? How do deep-sea creatures find food when it’s so dark down there? What do scientists think mythical sea monsters might really be?
A young female sea dolly is born in the shallow waters of a prehistoric Kansas Mesozoic-era lake and learns to survive after encountering a variety of predators and other underwater dinosaurs from that ancient time period.
It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self–contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea." ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker