As If Alive: Two-Legged Snakes, Zombie Sharks and Other Extinct Animals

Paleontology today answers questions that no one used to ask. Andrey Zhuravlev, a Russian geologist and science popularizer, tells about 27 different animals and what we learned from their fossil remains. He describes various creatures—from ancient worm-like organisms that lived more than 500 million years ago to giant lizards and mega-squids that lived a few tens of thousands of years ago.