Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a brilliant young paleobiologist

The past is past, but it does leav…

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