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A biggest 108–9 Asian watermeal plant 50 bearded pygmy
Abraham, Lake 76–7 biggest mouth 225 asteroids 303 chameleon 241
Abraj Al-Bait Towers camouflage 58–9, 62–5 astronauts beavers 254–5
hotel 167 carnivores 70–71 Moon landings 303, 335 bee hummingbird 124–5
Afar triangle 11 courtship displays space exploration 210, 211, bees
Africa 60–61, 73 312, 313 dances 235
animals 64 data 234–5 spacesuits 310–11 eggs 239
customs 29 eggs 238–9 weightlessness 197 honey 246–7
deserts 52 extremophiles 228–9 Atacama Desert 193 stings 276–7
early humans 269 farming 235 Atlas moth 120–21 beetles 121
extreme environments fastest 134–5, 138–9 atmosphere Beppu, Japan 14
10–11, 24–5 friendships 70 Earth 300, 301, 305, 306 bicycle tree 54–5
food 337 holding breath under planets 198–9 bioluminescence 56–7
mountains 326 water 218–19 Atolla jellyfish 234 biomass 193
trees 44–5, 53 it can’t be true 94–141 auroras birds
jumping 136–7
African cicada 248–9 largest heart 230–31 australis and borealis 78–9 biggest eggs 126–7
African driver ant 238–9 loudest 249 planetary 78 biggest wings 122–3
African elephant 222–3 migrations 74–5 Australia fastest 138–9
African red toad 65 ocean’s deadliest 226–7 clouds 86–7 flight 70–71, 138–9
coral reef 65
Agassi, Andre 40–41 oldest 132–3 largest flocks 221
air reproduction 72–3 festival 26 migration 128–9, 139
breathing 98–9 smallest vertebrate 212–13 plants 44–5, 53 most intelligent 235
in snow 323 strange but true 56–75 spiders 283 nests 24, 232–3
Australian trumpet snail 237
Airbus 320 129 swarms 74–5 Aztecs 341 smallest 124–5
A380 142, 145, 227 swimming 140–41 Azzam 148 steam-powered 297
Beluga 144 true or false? 212–55 tongues 225
aircraft Antarctica B weather predictions
biggest 144–5, 299 aurora 78–9 babies 318, 319
construction 166–7 dryness 193 births and deaths 325 black pebble toad 13
fastest 142–3 glaciers 9 bones 101 black widow spiders 119
longest flights 128–9, 157 ice sheet 173 crying 298 blood
low-flying 32–3 mountains 179, 326 oxygen 95 cells 97
albatross, wandering 123 antennae 121 rats 275 color 235
Alexander the Great 263 antibiotics 264, 288, 289 bacteria 15, 76, 264, mosquitoes 277
algae Antonov aircraft 145 288, 289 pumped by heart
bloom 48–9 ants 235, 238–9, 277 Bagger excavator 157 94–5
colorful 48–9, 82 aorta 97 Bahamas 68 red blood cells 97, 272
as food 24, 25, 48 Apollo 13 154–5 baitballs 74–5 vessels 95, 96–7, 273
altitude, dangers of 41 architecture 42–85 bald eagles 233 white blood cells 265
aluminum 175 Arctic fox 64–5 bamboo 131 Blood Pond Hot Spring 14
alveoli 99 Arctic tern 128 bananas 269, 284 Blue Marlin 151
American Revolution 328, 341 argan trees 66–7 baobab tree 44 blue shark 140
anacondas 115 Argentavis 123 bar-headed goose 99 blue whale
Andes 80–81, 179 Argentina 18 bar-tailed godwit 128, 129 biggest animal
Andromeda Galaxy 312 Argentine ants 221 BASE jumping 16, 39 108–9, 157
Angkor Wat temples 54 Argungu Fishing Festival 29 basilisk lizard 134 eye 103
anglerfish 56–7 Armstrong, Neil 210 Basket Building 42–3 heart 230–31, 235
animals arteries 95, 96, 97 bats 139, 225 length 217
agility 66–9 Asia 317, 326, 327, 337 Bay of Fundy 192 sound level 249

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