“This book,” he explains, “is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt, or not.” He constructs it around 16 geological sites from Alaska to Siberia to Australia, focused on the place of each in an evolving, changing world rather than, as one might expect, any especially charismatic occupants. Different, yes, but oddly familiar thanks to this debut book by Thomas Halliday, a vertebrate paleontologist and honorary fellow at the University of Birmingham. But readers of “Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds” will find it substantially less foreign than they might expect, even though the past in question is long ago indeed.
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