Washoe County Library System

Dare to discover the world's most ferocious and dangerous creatures and uncover the deadliest facts. Includes a list of the top 100 deadly animals.

Describes the one hundred most dangerous animals, plants, diseases, and weather on the planet, including scorpions, sharks, wolfsbane, killer bees, smallpox, tsunamis, and earthquakes.

This book describes the habitats, physical characteristics, and life cycle of the poisonous blue-ringed octopus.

These 13 deadly creatures can be difficult to spot until you're right on top of them . . . or they're right on top of you. Look for each animal in its environmentlook closely!and learn all the ways you could perishor survivedepending on how smart, well-informed, and good at running away you are. From the deathstalker scorpion and the poison dart frog to wasps, alligators, and many more, young readers will gain a new appreciation for the animal kingdom,...

Monsters are realand they're everywhere in nature! Animal Planet meets Godzilla in this nonfiction picture book that puts the "Ack!" into backyard science. Some people think monsters are the stuff of nightmaresthe stuff of scary movies and Halloween. But monsters can also be found right in your backyard. Animals like aye-ayes, goblin sharks and vampire bats may look scary, but they pose no threat to humans. Others, such as the prairie dog, seem innocentcute,...

Full of the roughest and toughest things on the planet - animals, bugs, plants and materials so hard, so resilient, and sometimes just so darn difficult to kill, that we've dubbed them 'the Indestructibles!'.