Combines text with colorful photographs to chronicle the species of animals and plants that are biological relics of a bygone era.

Autorentext

Piotr Naskrecki is an entomologist and a research associate with the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Smaller Majority.

Klappentext

World-renowned zoologist and photographer Naskrecki leads readers on an unbelievable journey across the globe to create a portrait of the planet like no other--a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years. 384 pp. 20,000 print.

Zusammenfassung
Horseshoe crabs are far from the only contemporary manifestation of Earth's distant past. This book leads readers on a journey through those lingering traces of a lost world. It begins by defining the concept of a relic - a creature or habitat that, while acted upon by evolution, remains similar to its earliest manifestations in the fossil record.