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Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places

Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places

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Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 05 June 2025
Publisher: Atlantic Books

A groundbreaking exploration of how life survives in extreme habitats, for fans of Ed Yong, Merlin Sheldrake and David Attenborough.

From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear inimical to life - yet in which it flourishes nevertheless. During the midday heat of the Sahara, silvery ants sprint from their nests to feed. In North American forests, wood frogs awaken each spring from solid blocks of ice.

At the site of the Chernobyl disaster, fungi harness radiation to thrive. Transporting readers to far-flung environments we could never call home, Super Natural paints an awe-inspiring portrait of life's resilience and ingenuity under the harshest circumstances. We meet creatures exquisitely adapted to endure unimaginable deprivations: of water, oxygen, food, sunlight.

Alex Riley shows how, at nature's extremes, the rules of life as we know them are rewritten - and how, here, we can find hope for the future of life on Earth, and beyond.

Weight: 580g
Dimension: 163 x 243 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805460787

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