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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind QUOTES

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind QUOTES

1 " I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side. "

― Richard Fortey , Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

2 " Emus are little more than feathered stomachs borne on mighty legs and ruled by a tiny brain. If an emu wants one of your sandwiches, he will get it, and then run away. He cannot help you with your sudoku. "

― Richard Fortey , Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

3 " Thus with a swipe of flesh on stone we carry our vertebrate pedigree back 525 million years ... A silvery sliver of a thing took us away from trilobites and snail onto our own special path: one which led to land, to Tyrannosaurus Rex, and The New York Times. "

― Richard Fortey , Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind