Dragon Biology

A Sea Serpent. A lost underwater world. And a giant Megalodon blocking the way home. When a magical junkyard door plunges Eli and Grace into a hidden world beneath the ocean, they discover colorful coral reefs, strange sea creatures, and incredible secrets hidden deep beneath the waves. Guided by Shel, a Sea Serpent scientist, the kids explore an underwater world filled with spiky pufferfish, mysterious blobfish, and even a swirling Tuna Tornado. But their greatest challenge is still waiting in the deep. A sixty-foot Megalodon. To make it home before the portal closes forever, Eli and Grace...

The Biology of Mythical Creatures: Real Animals Behind Dragons, Vampires, Sea Serpents, Werewolves, and Legendary Monsters looks at famous monsters as biological constructions built from real animals, mistaken observations, disease, fossils, and fear. Rather than treating dragons, vampires, sea serpents, and werewolves as inventions with no roots in nature, it asks a simpler question: what in the natural world made these creatures believable? A dragon becomes easier to imagine when it combines the body of a great snake, the armored hide of a crocodile, the wings of a bat, and the size and ...