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Автор: Rodney Steel
Издательство: Christopher Helm
Год издания: 1989
isbn: 0747030073
Количество страниц: 222
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Today, crocodiles cling only precariously to their tropical homelands. Lacking the appeal of fur-bearing mammals, they have a low popularity rating in conservation terms, and are still frequently treated only as dangerous vermin. Yet these largely unloved creatures are among the most remarkable of all so-called living fossils. Had they failed to survive into the modern world, their petrified bones would have been just as much a source of wonder and speculation as the skeletons of their close relatives, the dinosaurs. |
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