Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It`s weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we`re all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven`t had sex for millions of years & creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them & fire them off into space without killing them. In this breathtakingly audacious book, Simon Barnes opens our eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.