03241nam a22003377a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280100017000690200026000860200017001120200023001290400027001520500014001790820008001931000014002012450058002152600037002733000049003105000062003595000043004215202070004646500038025346500046025726500038026186500046026569060045027029420015027479990015027629520126027776333FISKH20250422145048.0100427s2010    nyua          000 0 eng d  a  2010927612  a9781603201414 (hdbk.)  a072440100718  a1603201416 (hdbk.)  aBTCTAbengcBTCTAdCLE  aQH46 .W66  a508  aAnonymous04aThe wonders of life : bThe amazing world of nature /  aNew York : bLife Book, c2010.   a126 pages : bcolor illustrations ; c28 cm   a"Includes 5 removable prints ready to be framed"--Jacket.  a"Life the classic collection"--Jacket.  aHere we have an endless stream of exotica-exotic living things growing from the ground and exotic critters of all shapes and sizes, crawling, bounding and flying around. As LIFE's editors put it in their introduction: "This is a wild book. In its pages we have animals as big as trucks and plants as big as small towns. We have flowers that dance for our pleasure and flowers that shyly hide underground, flowers that can kill animals and flowers that can heal animals. We have a teeny tiny bird that is directly descended from T Rex and a truly enormous bird that can't fly but can run 45 miles an hour. We have a lizard king that could rip you apart and a lizard princeling that walks on water. This is a wild, wild book." It is indeed. It is a book that is focused on life at the far fringes-the biggest, toughest, gentlest, rarest and weirdest species. It ultimately creates an astonishing image of the world around us, a world more diverse and sometimes strange than even the most imaginative reader might have expected. Accompanying the remarkable photography, which is always LIFE's hallmark, are descriptions of each subject that will fairly boggle the mind. Did you know that a carnivorous plant's trapping mechanism often doubles as its stomach, or that an elephant seal can hold its breath for up to two hours when diving in the sea? There are as many amazing facts in these pages as there are sensational pictures. And as with earlier volumes in LIFE's Classic Collection series, Wonders of Life comes with a bonus feature: Five photographic prints from the famed LIFE archive that can be extracted, framed and hung on your wall. When the print is removed, the exact picture is still there on the page beneath, so your deluxe coffee-table book remains intact. It is, as the editors write, "an elegant trick worthy of the dancing flower, and one that our readers have come to expect-and greatly enjoy." Travel along then, around the globe and to the depths of the oceans, as LIFE celebrates the wonders of life-each of them wondrous almost beyond belief. 0aNatural historyvPictorial works. 0aCuriosities and wondersvPictorial works. 4aNatural historyxPictorial works. 4aCuriosities and wondersxPictorial works.  a7bcbcccopycatd2encipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBKn0  c6333d6333  00102ddc40708NFICa001b001cATKSNFd2025-04-22l0oANO 508 QH46 .W66p2025-1079r2025-04-22 14:50:46w2025-04-22yBK