In Survivors, veteran palaeontologist Richard Fortey travels the globe to track the species that have persisted throughout the millennia
IT IS five years since Richard Fortey retired from his post as senior palaeontologist at London’s Natural History Museum. Yet that has hardly curbed his academic output or the enthusiasm that drove him to study fossils for more than half a century. If anything, he is rapidly cementing his position as one of his field’s great survivors.
Fortey’s latest book is all about survivors too. Life has notched up something like 3.8 billion years on Earth, and it has been…
