Professor Richard A. Fortey FRS (born 1946 in London) is a British paleontologist and writer, formerly a Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. Since 1997, he has been a member of the Royal Society. The Fellowship of the Royal Society was founded in 1660. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... The Natural History Museum from the south east The Natural History Museum, one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum), is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ...

Prof. Fortey’s research interests include, above all, trilobites. According to him, he found his first one when he was 14, and the interest later turned into a career. He has named numerous trilobite species. Orders Agnostida Redlichiida Corynexochida Lichida Phacopida Proetida Asaphida Harpetida Ptychopariida doubtful order Nektaspida Trilobites are extinct arthropods in the class Trilobita. ...

Fortey studies trilobites and graptolites, especially those from the Ordovician, and their systematics, evolution and modes of life. He is also involved in research on Ordovician palaeogeography and correlation; arthropod evolution, especially the origin of major groups; and the relationships between divergence times as revealed by molecular evidence and the fossil record. Graptolites (Graptolithina) are fossil colonial animals known chiefly from the Upper Cambrian through the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous). ... The Ordovician period is the second of the six (seven in North America) periods of the Paleozoic era. ... A speculative phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. ... Palaeogeography is the study of the ancient geography of the Earths surface. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - spiders,scorpions, etc. ... A fossil Ammonite Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally having been dug up) are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms. ...

He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing. In 1993, Fortey's The Hidden Landscape was awarded the Natural World Book of the Year. He appeared on BBC2's "University Challenge - The Professionals" in 2004, as a member of the Palaeontological Association team, who beat the Eden Project. This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... Typical setup University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show. ... The Eden Project Inside the tropical Biome The Eden Project is a project conceived by Tim Smit and designed by the architects Grimshaw to construct and maintain a large-scale environmental complex on a property located about 8 km (5 mi) from St Austell in Bodelva, Cornwall, UK. Although relatively...

Professor Fortey has been elected to be President of the Geological Society of London for it's bicentennial year of 2007. The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of investigating the mineral structure of the Earth. It is the oldest geological society in the world. ...

Books

• The Hidden Landscape (1993)
• Life: An Unauthorised Biography. A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (1997)
• Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (2000)
• Fossils: The Key to the Past (2002)
• The Earth: An Intimate History (2004)