Aquarium: How Jeannette Power Invented Aquariums to Observe Marine Life

by Darcy Pattison

Book Overview

In 1818, Jeannette Power, a young French woman moved to Sicily and fell in love with the Mediterranean Sea and the Argonauta Argo octopus, the weirdest octopus on Earth.

Amazing weird fact: The Argonaut octopus creates a delicate shell for itself which it uses to travel up and down in the water and as a safe place to raise its young.

At the time, though, the only way to study a marine animal was if...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162944233X
• ISBN13: 9781629442334
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Mims House Books
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7