Extreme Science: Chasing the Ghost Bat: And Other Mysteries of Nature

From the pages of Scientific American comes the latest information and explorations into the bizarre realm of the natural world, including:-Our oldest relatives and the discovery of missing links-Strange predators, from flesh-eating chimps to the lethal Komodo dragon-Strange plant life, such as the carnivorous Venus's flytrap and the Voodoo lily-Extinct monsters, and giant, flightless, flesh-eating birds-Mysterious denizens of the deep, such as the giant squid and the slime hag-Insect oddities: fire ants, singing caterpillars, and Africanized bees