Three-part series in which Professor Richard Fortey investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the unique and remarkable species that live on them. Examining some ...

It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life's hold on Earth has been so precarious it seems it hangs on by a thread. This series focuses on the ...

Derek E. G. Briggs is a palaeontologist at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and curator at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The UK ...

From the acclaimed author of Life and Trilobite!, a fascinating geological exploration of the earth's distant history as revealed by its natural wonders. The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains ...

The map on the hotel wall said “Good fossils here”, so Richard Fortey, then 14, did not hesitate. He seized his geologist’s hammer, braved the gorse and got down to the beach. It was a typical British ...

The trilobite — an extinct marine creature with numerous legs and a uniquely shaped exoskeleton — occupied almost every ecological niche available to its phylum throughout the Palaeozoic era. In a ...

Had I seen this book earlier in 2016, I should have recommended it as my ‘best read’ of the year. It’s for everyone who ever had dirt under their fingernails. “The Wood for the Trees” author, Richard ...

Trilobites of New York by Thomas Whiteley, Gerald Kloc and Carlton Brett, Cornell University Press, $55, ISBN 0801439698 Reviewed by Richard Fortey ONCE amazingly abundant and varied, ...

“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life. The only known wild E. Woodii was discovered in 1895 by the ...

Behind the galleries -- The naming of names -- Old worlds -- Animalia -- Theatre of plants -- Multum in parvo -- Museum rocks -- Noah's Ark in Kensington -- House of the Muses Summary In an elegant ...

When Earth evolved, it did not have the life-supporting oxygen that we breathe today. Researchers have now identified the ...