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Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind
Title:
Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind
Author:
Fortey, Richard A.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
xv, 332 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Summary:
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."
General Note:
"Originally published as Survivors in Great Britain by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London."

Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780307263612
Format :
Book