With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.

Author: Richard Fortey
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/13/2001
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780375706219


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/04/2001 pg. 36
New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 89
Science 06/05/2009 pg. 1267