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Boeing aircraft 129, 142, Cambodia 54 climate change 300 DE
145, 166–7 camels 36–7 clocks 291 da Vinci, Leonardo 298
787 Dreamliner 186 cameras, surveillance 294–5 clouds dams 254–5
bones camouflage 58–9, 62–5 mammatus 86 damselflies 250–51
human 271, 272, 273 Canada morning glory 86–7 Danakil Depression 10–11
weight of 100–101 ice 30, 83 weight 186–7 Danyang-Kunshan Grand
Boojum tree 45 lakes 76–7 cockroaches 229, 280–81 Bridge 169
books 160–61, 163 meteorites 313 colds 264–5 dark matter 309
boreal forests 176–7 salmon 278 color-blindness 259 Darwin, Charles 81, 269, 322
boreholes, deepest/longest tides 302 colors Darwin’s bark spider 119
172–3 waterfalls 327 at sea 48–9, 56–7 data storage 160–61
Borneo 51 Cannonball tree 46–7 of ice 19 Dead Sea 182
bowhead whale 133, 225 Cape cobra 238 of microorganisms 15, 24 deciduous trees 176
box jellyfish 226–7 capillaries 96, 97 of minerals 10–11, 20–21, Decken’s sifaka 22
brain cardiac output 95 25, 82 deforestation 176
endorphins 266 carnivorous plants 53 prismatic 15 deserts
and music 338 carpenter bee 239 colossal squid 102–3, 244–5 hottest 10–11
sight 259 cars 283, 294, 300 comb jelly 234 mapping 36–7
size 102 highest mileage 156 Comet P67/Churyumov- natural features 10–11
taste and smell 260, 261 Castoroides 254 Gerasimenko 206–7 plants 45, 52
water content 273 caterpillars 58–9, 280, 337 communication 275, 292, 293 population 324
Brazil 52 cathedrals 164 compound eyes 250 diamonds 313, 327
Brazil nut family 46–7 cats 269, 275, 311 computers digestion 267, 272
Brazilian wandering Cave of the Crystals 21 data 162–3 digging, deepest 172–3
spider 119 caves and caverns 20–21 data storage 160–61 dinosaurs
breathing collapsed 23 electronic 299 biggest 110–11
humans 98–9, 272 glacial 18–19 fastest 158 eggs 126
snakes 114 wildlife 57 Internet and World Wide first 327
breeding 278, 280 cells 259, 265, 272 Web 292–3 predators 112–13
bridges Ceres 202 quantum 291 diseases 276
longest 169 Challenger Deep 156 smallest 158–9 diving
tallest 168–9 chameleon 240–41 spidersweb simulations deepest 156
bristlecone pines 130–31 Chandelier Tree 45 282 fastest bird 138
Brookesia micra 240–41 Chan’s megastick 121 Concorde 142 DNA 268–9, 272
brownbanded bamboo cheese 275, 337 coniferous trees 176 dogs 289, 311
shark 238 cheetah 134, 135 constellations 308–9 smallest 215
bubbles, methane 76–7 chess 298 container ships 150–51 tallest 214–15
buildings chicken 238 continental crust 173 dolphins 70, 75
biggest 166–7 chihuahua 215 continental plates 181 dragonflies 139, 250–51
heaviest 170–71 Chillicothe, Ohio 90–91 continents 180–81 Dubai 40–41
tallest 164–5, 170 chimpanzees 268, 311 corpse flower 50–51 Dubai International
unusual 42–3 China Coulthard, David 41 Airport 167
bullets 143 algal bloom 48–9 Couroupita guianensis ducks 139, 143
bungee jumping 35 Chinese Revolution 341 46–7 dust
Buñol, Spain 26–7 cities 340, 341 courtship dances 73 and red skies 319
burgers 336–7 earlobes 271 crabs, blood 235 snowflakes 322
Burj Al Arab helipad 40–41 space 303, 313 craters 303, 313 space 309
Burj Khalifa 164–5 tower 35 crow 235 dwarf planets 202–3
butterflies 60–61, 280, 281 Chinchilla Festival 26 cruise ships 148, 149 e-books 163
bytes 160 chitin 244 crust, Earth’s 172–3, ears 270, 272
chiton mollusk 234 179, 190 Earth 300–301
C chocolate 266, 288 crystal caves 18–19, 21 atmosphere 77, 79
California 45 cicada 249 cumulus cloud 186–7 center of 190–91
Callicore butterfly 60–61 click beetle 234 Cuvier’s beaked whale 219 continents 180–81

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