The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick

An elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist

Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on earth, seeming to bend the “rules” of land-based biology. Although sometimes unseen in the deep, t...