Describes some of the treasures to be found in the seas, including cargoes from wrecked ships, valuable shells, and pearls.

Text and photographs demonstrate how animals protect themselves through their natural coloring or shape.

The daily struggle of a buffalo against famine, drought, and death by the hunter's bullet, in the days when the bison moved in mighty herds on America's plains.

The lifecycle and world of the horseshoe crab which lives along the Atlantic shoreline of North America.

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A toad begins life as a tiny tadpole, becomes a tiny toad and finds himself a hole under a rock, eats all kinds of insects, and becomes old enough to return to the pond to breed.