Upending each limpet- and periwinkle-adorned boulder reveals an array of life.
During his 14 years on the job, he pried, cajoled or otherwise extracted a broad array of life forms from danger, dealing with a menagerie of exotic animals.
It also ranks as one of the biggest and busiest, shaping a staggering array of life in its immediate vicinity in one way or another.
The fossils, discovered in Southern China's Yunnan Province, date to the Cambrian period, when a diverse and sometimes bizarre array of life forms were rapidly emerging in the Earth's oceans.
The Earth is in danger, the result of human abuse, and we need more young people going outdoors, enjoying and appreciating all that is on display — this incredible array of life forms that modern genetics resoundingly confirms is our kin.
As Yábar and I descended from Machu Picchu to the Urubamba River valley below, we poked about forests draped in a tangled, almost blinding array of life: orchids, bromeliads, mosses, ferns, vines, grasses and tree species.
Moreover, they offer a complex and diverse array of life strategies, raising a multitude of evolutionary questions.
His studies and those by his students showed that the Burgess Shale had an "astonishing array of life which seemed to have exploded suddenly into an unsuspected profusion".
With this set up, he has been able to record a remarkable array of life, from amphipods - prawn-like creatures that can reach more than 30cm (12in) long - to bright pink, gelatinous fish.
It may also be bad because it will severely restrict the array of life plans open to the clone, thus violating her 'right to an open future' (a concept developed by Feinberg, 1980).
