TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fortey,Richard A.
TI  - Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms: the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind 
SN  - 0307263614
AV  - QL434 .F67 2012
U1  - 595 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Arthropoda
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Invertebrates
KW  - Limulus polyphemus
KW  - Worms
KW  - Plant conservation
KW  - Arthropods
KW  - Protection
KW  - sears
KW  - Horseshoe crabs
N1  - "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
N2  - 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."
ER  -