How alive. Two-legged snakes, zombie sharks and other disappeared animals. Zhuravlev A.

What color was ichthyosaurus? How many calories were required by Megalodon a day? Is it possible to fly on abdominal ribs (and what is it at all)? What did the snakes with legs look, turtles without a shell or amphibians with fins? Who ate to whom, how did he move and what breathed?

Today, paleontology answers questions that only ten years ago no one would even dare to ask. For example, 27 of very different animals, the famous Russian geologist and popularizer of science Andrei Zhuravlev talks about what we can learn from paleontological finds. As alive, a variety of creatures appear before the reader - from small organisms that are more likely to worm and swimming in the seas more than half a billion years ago, to giant lizards, whose steps shook the soil a little more than 40,000 years ago, and the terror of megaaculu. >