EUROPA CLIPPER TO SEEK JUPITER SYSTEM'S OTHERLANDS: 5/8: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday.
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🗓️ 20 October 2024
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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.EUROPA CLIPPER TO SEEK JUPITER SYSTEM'S OTHERLANDS: /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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| 0:40.0 | is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. Thomas Halliday, the author of the new book Other Lands, A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds. |
| 0:47.0 | Thomas is a paleontologist and an evolutionary biologist. |
| 0:51.0 | We'd go now to some part of human history that is present in the 20th century, a very |
| 0:58.4 | famous movie called Jurassic Park. Well we're going to the real Jurassic, 155 million years ago. |
| 1:05.4 | This is a time that Thomas reports was time for recovery from an extinction event that happened |
| 1:11.2 | some 50 million years before, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction. |
| 1:15.0 | We're now in a piece of land that we think of as Germany today, Swabia, Germany. |
| 1:22.0 | And why this is all important is that we're looking at the recovery |
| 1:27.0 | from what I presume was a climate change extinction. |
| 1:31.0 | Is that correct, Thomas, is that the thinking about what happened? |
| 1:34.0 | The Triassic, Jurassic extinction is one of the most hotly debated extinctions in terms of |
| 1:40.9 | cause, but the leading candidate for this is that you is runaway |
| 1:45.6 | climate change and because we appear to have had a sort of emission of |
| 1:52.0 | sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, all of these sorts of gases that warm the atmosphere |
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