“But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“In the Spirit Building there are thousands upon thousands of jars containing fish or snake, octopus or lobster, pickled to the life.… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages.… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“I lean back, try to forget these fields and flanking hills. A long time before me or these tools, the Teays flowed… — Breece D'J Pancake Copy Share Image
