How Long Things LiveA 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. AUTHOR: Anthony Fredericks is the author of the Science Fair Handbook and a number of science books for young people. He is professor at York College, Pennsylvania. 10 line drawings |
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| Title | How Long Things Live |
| Author | Anthony D. Fredericks |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Stackpole Books, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0811736229, 9780811736220 |
| Length | 167 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Animals / General Nature / Plants / General Science / General |
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