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The New York Times bestseller now available for young listeners! Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong. Did you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That some fish use electricity to talk to each other?...

Unlock the mystery of life on planet Earth . . . with a talking bacterium! Bertie the Bacteria takes listeners on a joke-fueled journey, revealing how small organisms became some of Earth’s largest creatures, including the epically humongous blue whale. With laugh-out-loud text science lovers and comic book fans alike will delight in exploring the history of our precious blue planet.

In the history of life on this planet, 99.9 percent of all species have gone extinct. But a few have survived almost unchanged. Author Rebecca E. Hirsch introduces listeners to six living fossils, including the chambered nautilus, the horseshoe crab with its sticky blue blood, and venomous platypuses that sting, as well as a comprehensive explanation of evolution and extinction for listeners who may not be familiar with the terms yet.