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."