Product Description: This series takes a high-interest angle on classic match-ups between hunters and the hunted. Each book will take a look at the features of each animal that make them particularly suited to catch (or evade!) the others.

From the surface of the ocean, it's hard to see any visible signs of life below. But this remarkable ecosystem is teeming with life―life that is increasingly under environmental stress. And it is often the predators that sound the earliest warning signs. By tracking a wide variety of ocean predators, the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) project provides essential cutting-edge information about the state of the ocean's health and the challenges facing all its inhabitants. Acclaimed science writer Pamela S. Turner takes readers along with four predators―a leatherback sea turtle, a bluefin tuna, a great white shark, and a Sooty Shearwater―on their remarkable journeys. This full-access look will change the way readers view our blue planet.

Stunning close-up pictures by an award-winning National Geographic photographer paints a complete and fascinating picture of the marine environment, while quick facts and sidebars, a glossary, index, and books and websites for further reading help readers learn all they can about some of the world's most fascinating creatures.

An accessible look at the hunters who prowl the dark ocean depths--sharks, squid, barracuda, octopi, whales, and jellyfish--is illustrated with stunning 3-D cut-paper illustrations and divided into chapters. Original. (view table of contents)

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Depicts the physical characteristics and behavior of such marine predators as the killer whale, barracuda, and Portuguese man-of-war.

Describes hunting techniques used by predators that live in and around coral reefs. (view table of contents)

Briefly describes where some species of sharks live and how they catch their food

A look at predatory marine animals such as sharks, jellyfish, and octopus