How Long to Read Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms

How Long Does it Take to Read Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older—and odder—than many of us realize. Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. These are not “living fossils” but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone. Written in buoyant, sparkling prose, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is a marvelously captivating exploration of the world’s old-timers combining the very best of science writing with an explorer’s sense of adventure and wonder.

How long is Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms?

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms aloud.

What Reading Level is Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms?

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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