Новинки Ричарда Форти

Перед нами первая научно-популярная книга на русском языке о трилобитах. Миллионы лет назад эти необычайные животные самых немыслимых форм и размеров, хищные и смирные, крошки и гиганты, царили в океанах и на суше... а потом исчезли. О загадках их ушедшей жизни интеллигентно и остроумно рассказывает Ричард Форти, большой знаток трилобитов, влюбленный в них с самого детства.

Перед нами первая популярная книга на русском языке о трилобитах. Миллионы лет назад эти необычайные животные самых немыслимых форм и размеров, хищные и смирные, крошки и гиганты, царили в океанах и на суше... а потом исчезли. О загадках их ушедшей жизни интеллигентно и остроумно рассказывает Ричард Форти, большой знаток трилобитов, влюбленный в них с самого детства. Читатель не только получит основательные сведения о трилобитах и их современниках. Он почувствует поступь эволюции, которая произвела на свет этих существ, позволила им сначала триумфально шествовать по океанам и эпохам, а потом — таинственно исчезнуть. Вы узнаете, как с…

The history of life on Earth is far older - and odder - than many of us realise. In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning author Richard Fortey takes us on a journey across the globe, via America, China, Australia and New Zealand, uncovering creatures who have survived, almost unchanged, through geological time. Algal mats, musk oxen, the horseshoe crab and the velvet worm; these remarkable plants and animals offer a tantalising glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history Written with Fortey's customary gusto, Survivors combines the very best science writing with an explorer's sense of adventure and a poet's wonder at the natural…

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.

"At last, I found a trilobite. The rock simply parted around the animal, like some sort of revelation. I was left holding two pieces of rock--surely what I held was the textbook come alive. The long thin eyes of the trilobite regarded me and I returned the gaze. More compelling than any pair of blue eyes, there was a shiver of recognition across 500 million years."

From the author of Life comes the fascinating story of the beginnings of life on our planet as seen by its very first creatures, trilobites--the exotic, crustacean-like animals that dominated the seas for 300 million years.
Richard Fortey fell in love with trilobites as a fourteen-year-old when he held his first fossil in his hand. In Trilobite!, he draws on a lifetime of study of these creatures to unravel the history of life on earth from their point of view. Trilobites saw continents move, mountain chains grow and erode; they survived ice ages and volcanic eruptions, constantly evolving and exquisitely adapting to their environment--their own evolution calibrated to geological time itself.
With Fortey's expert guidance, we begin to understand how trilobites reveal the pattern and mechanism of evolution through their fossil legacy in the rocks. Through the eyes of trilobites, he allows us glimpses of former worlds as foreign in their geography as in their life forms. Altogether, he provides a unique picture of our geological past, which in turn provides us--scientist and layperson alike--with a new grasp of the wonders of scientific discovery.

This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian:Tremadocian–early Floian) trilobites from Northern Spitsbergen from the section through the Kirtonryggen Formation adjacent to Hinlopen Strait. The Formation is divided into three Members, each with distinct trilobites collectively representing the fullest known succession from the Bathyurid biofacies of the eastern Laurentian carbonate platform. Previous research on the Ordovician of Spitsbergen is summarised and correlations with similar faunas previously described from Canada, Greenland, western Newfoundland, Vermont–New York State, Oklahoma and Missouri are discussed. Taxonomic problems…