Living fossils.
By: With 83 drawings by Jane Burton.
Series: The Past in the present
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1954
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Living fossils.
Description: Ancient forms of animal life which have survived, even though other members of their class or order are extinct. Includes egg-laying mammals, marsupials, certain arthropods, flightless land-dwelling birds, primitive insects, and the coelacanth.