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Trilobite by Richard Fortey is one of the most enjoyable popular books on paleontology (or biology for that matter) in the last several years. Fortey truly loves his subject, and the result is a wonderful study of these remarkable ancient creatures.
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses A wonderful read, this is a popular history of mosses and their interaction with the organisms around them. An excellent work of popular science.
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A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth The true story of the remarkable discovery of the coelacanth, a fish that was, until 1938, thought to exist only in the fossil record.
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Great White Shark By Richard Ellis and John McCosker. Ellis writes some very interesting popular books about the sea, and here he teams with McCosker to write easily the most thorough account available about a subject he knows very well, the great white shark.
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