Discovering fossil fishes

In Discovering Fossil Fishes, John Maisey traces the evolution of fishes over the course of 500 million years, describing the discovery of their extraordinary fossil remains and explaining what these ancient animals tell us about our own place in the history of life. Combining current scientific information with entertaining tales about historic and contemporary fieldwork, Maisey brings to life the development of armored fishes, monster sharks, and fishes with arms as he reveals the subtleties of evolution's greatest success story. Through outstanding full-color photographs of their fossils and of fossil reconstructions by artists David Miller and Ivy Rutzky, along with informative photographs, charts, diagrams, and drawings, we discover a staggering half-billion-year history in which lies our own watery origins.

First sentence: FISHES have a unique evolutionary history that stretches back in time more than 450 million years.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Westview Press

Editions

1

Pages

224

ISBN

9780813338071

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