Paul M. A. Willis

Fantastic book. It gets extra points for not concentrating on dinosaurs and other sexy fossils, but also covers the more osbcure and primitive creatures from the really remote past. I found the stromatolites, the bizarre Ediacarian fossils and the fishes from Canowindra particularly fascinating. A must-read for fossil buffs and anyone interested in kadimakara, which is an Aboriginal word for creatures from the Dreamtime, now used to designate Australia's extinct fauna.