Título:
Horseshoe crabs and velvet worms : the story of the animals and plants that time has left behind / Richard Fortey.
ISBN:
9780307263612
Autor personal:
Edición:
First U.S. edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
©2011
Descripción física:
xv, 332 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Nota general:
"Originally published as Survivors in Great Britain by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London."
Contenido:
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.
Síntesis:
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."
Título añadido:
Survivors : the animals and plants that time has left behind.
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn745979753
Disponibilidad:
Eagan - Wescott~1
