When a whale carcass lands on the deep ocean floor, a café opens for business, and the diners don't stop rooting their way through the menu until the cupboards are bare.
Hagfish, zombie worms, sleeper sharks-this group of patrons is stranger than the denizens of the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars. A fish in a lab coat, piloting a deep-sea submersible, is our guide to the weirdly fascinating goings-on miles beneath the ocean surface.
The backmatter includes rare whale-fall photos from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek of MBARI and Dr. Craig Smith, a deep-ocean ecologist at the University of Hawaii, have helped Jacquie Sewell to ensure scientific accuracy.
ISBN: | 9780884488484 |
Publication date: | 11th March 2025 |
Author: | Jacquie Sewell |
Illustrator: | Dan Tavis |
Publisher: | Tilbury House Publishers |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 40 pages |
Genres: |
The Natural World Wildlife Science Mystery / Mythology |