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	Podcast:		The John Batchelor Show
	Episode:		8/8: The known as well as yet incomplete fossil record: 8/8: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday.
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:10:15
	Publish Date:		2023-01-29 00:08:59
	Description:		Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 8/8: The known as well as yet incomplete fossil record: 8/8: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday. https://www.amazon.com/Otherlands-Journey-Through-Earths-Extinct/dp/B097CL2BVX/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr1 The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. This book 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. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in; into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica; and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life.
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