Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

摘要

Time travel becomes possible in the pages of Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind. Paleontologist Richard Fortey plays tour guide through the crucibles of evolution where life-forms transformed into the manifold species we observe today.Fortey focuses on the creatures that survived periods of evolutionary change to emerge relatively unchanged. His hunt for the titular horseshoe crabs and velvet worms-both species that are likely more than 400 million years old-whisks readers away to murky bays in Delaware and pine forests in New Zealand.