Water has the highest specific heat capacity of any sort/type of liquid.
I can certainly see how this is likely to be a science book. With the latest photographic technology scientists have photographed everything from star nebulas, space gases, to exoskeletons of creatures, flowers, sun flares, waves in motion, inside cells, etc. so yes absolutely!
Amino acid reactions. Amino acids via their various chemical functionalities can undergo numerous chemical reactions.
The fossil shows evidence of how animals lived on Earth in the past and shows history about animals that may be extinct now or have evolved since then, which would show development in the animal in the fossil.