Best-selling author, paleontologist Donald Prothero, has turned the scientific description of twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils into a fascinating history of the development of life on Earth. The twenty-five fossils featured in this book demonstrate life in all its evolutionary glory, showing how one species turns into another. We see all the diversity of extinct plants and animals - from microscopic to gigantic sizes. We will tell you about fantastic land and sea creatures that have no analogues in modern nature: the first trilobites, giant sharks, huge marine reptiles and feathered dinosaurs, the first birds, walking whales, giant hornless rhinoceroses and Australopithecus "Lucy".

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