The new book from the “100 Greats” series talks about records in the world of wildlife. A significant part of the phenomena of living nature, the characteristics of the life activity and behavior of the inhabitants of land and the World Ocean, simple and complex organisms have long been studied and described by scientists. And yet, plants, invertebrate animals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds and animals never cease to amaze and delight us with their properties. And if you try to build a kind of rating of their records and achievements, then sometimes even familiar representatives of flora and fauna begin to look like unique creations of the Creator. The longest algae and the tallest tree, the largest and rarest beetle and the largest fish, the most “hardened” bird and the rarest mammal on Earth - these and many other “record holders” pass through the pages of the collection.