palaeontologist, author and TV presenter who traced continents through fossils
The UK palaeontologist Richard Fortey — who spent his career at the Natural History Museum in London — was an expert on trilobites. These arthropods, distant relatives of today’s crustaceans and horseshoe crabs, went extinct at the end of the Palaeozoic era, some 250 million years ago. Fortey’s detailed fieldwork on trilobite ecology showed that those living in relatively shallow...









