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"Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched seals and dolphins on the walls of Paleolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors to track these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from highly respected marine mammal paleontologist Annalisa Berta delves into the story of the extraordinary adaptations that gave the world these amazing animals. The Rise of Marine Mammals reveals remarkable fossil record discoveries that shed light on the origins, relationships, and diversification of marine mammals. Focusing on evolution and paleobiology, Berta provides an overview of marine mammal species diversity, enhanced with gorgeous life restorations by Carl Buell, Robert Boessenecker, William Stout, and Ray Troll and extensive line drawings by graphics editor James L. Sumich. The book also considers ongoing conservation challenges, demonstrating how the fossil record of adaptation in response to past environmental shifts may illuminate the way that marine mammals respond to global climate change. This invaluable evolutionary framework is essential for helping us understand how best to protect and conserve today's polar bears, whales, dolphins, seals, and fellow warm-blooded ocean dwellers. The Rise of Marine Mammals also describes exciting breakthroughs that rely on new techniques of study, including 3-D imaging, and molecular, finite element, and morphometric analyses, which have enhanced scientists' understanding of everything from the anatomy of fetal whales to the genes behind limb loss in cetaceans. Mammalogists, paleontologists, and marine scientists will find Berta's insights absorbing, while developmental and molecular biologists, geneticists, and ecologists exploring integrative research approaches will benefit from her fresh perspective."--Publisher's description.

Marine animals --- Mammals --- Evolution. --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Evolution

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Crustacea. --- Marine animals. --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Crustaceans --- Arthropoda --- Shellfish --- Carcinology

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Zoology. --- Pearls. --- Marine animals. --- Fisheries --- Zebras. --- Zebra --- Equus --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Gems --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals

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Marine animals --- Freshwater animals --- Marine biology --- Aquatic animals --- Physiology --- Behavior --- Aquatic fauna --- Water animals --- Fresh-water fauna --- Freshwater fauna --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Freshwater Ecology. --- Marine Sciences. --- Aquatic animals. --- Marine biology. --- Physiology. --- Behavior. --- Biological oceanography --- Ocean biology --- Oceanic biology --- Sea biology --- Animals --- Aquatic organisms --- Freshwater organisms --- Marine organisms --- Aquatic biology --- Marine sciences --- Agriculture Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Fisheries and Aquaculture --- Zoology

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Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives; post- modernism, psychoanalysis, industrial-organisational analysis, fandom studies, sociology and philosophy are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the Kraken, mermaids, giant sharks, sea draugrs and even the weird creatures of H.P. Lovecraft. Beasts of the Deep offers an expansive study of our sea-born fears and anxieties, that are crystallised in a variety of monstrous forms. Repeatedly the chapters in the collection encounter the contemporary relevance of our fears of the sea and its inhabitants -- through the dehumanising media depictions of refugees in the Mediterranean to the encroaching ecological disasters of global warming, pollution and the threat of mass marine extinction.

Popular culture. --- Marine animals. --- Sea monsters. --- Sea serpents --- Animals, Mythical --- Marine animals --- Monsters --- Ocean --- Serpents --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Mythology