Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind /
Fortey, Richard A.
Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind / by Richard Fortey. - 1st American ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. - xv, 332 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
"Originally published as Survivors in Great Britain by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Old horseshoes -- The search for the velvet worm -- Slimy mounds -- Life in hot water -- An inveterate bunch -- Greenery -- Of fishes and hellbenders -- Heat in the blood -- Islands, ice -- Survivors against the odds.
Former Natural History Museum (London) paleontologist Fortey gives us the stories of those plants, animals, and other creatures that have survived from Earth's early days--the planet's "true marathon runners."
0307263614 9780307263612
2011039941
Arthropoda--Conservation.
Invertebrates--Conservation.
Limulus polyphemus--Conservation.
Worms.
Plant conservation.
Arthropods--Protection.
Invertebrates--Protection.
Horseshoe crabs--Protection.
Worms.
Plant conservation.
QL434 / .F67 2012
595
Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind / by Richard Fortey. - 1st American ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. - xv, 332 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
"Originally published as Survivors in Great Britain by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Old horseshoes -- The search for the velvet worm -- Slimy mounds -- Life in hot water -- An inveterate bunch -- Greenery -- Of fishes and hellbenders -- Heat in the blood -- Islands, ice -- Survivors against the odds.
Former Natural History Museum (London) paleontologist Fortey gives us the stories of those plants, animals, and other creatures that have survived from Earth's early days--the planet's "true marathon runners."
0307263614 9780307263612
2011039941
Arthropoda--Conservation.
Invertebrates--Conservation.
Limulus polyphemus--Conservation.
Worms.
Plant conservation.
Arthropods--Protection.
Invertebrates--Protection.
Horseshoe crabs--Protection.
Worms.
Plant conservation.
QL434 / .F67 2012
595