Sam marshall tarantula scientist biography templates
The Tarantula Scientist!
The Tarantula Scientist
The Tarantula Scientist
(Scientists in the Field Series)
Houghton Mifflin, March 2004
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Yellow blood, silk of steel, skeletons on the outside!
Sam marshall tarantula scientist biography templates
These amazing attributes creatures don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. Here you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never been bitten) as he explores the dense rainforest of French Guiana, knocking on the doors of tarantula burrows, trying to get a closer look at these incredible creatures.
You’ll also visit the largest comparative spider laboratory in America—where close to 500 live tarantulas sit in towers of stacked shoeboxes and plastic containers, waiting for their turn to dazzle and astound the scientists who study them.
Spectacular, rare photographs reveal the tarantulas’ eight legs and eyes, up close, and document hours of tireless investigation, showing the way tarant