"Otherlands" & Thomas Halliday on climate change The table below provides more detailed information about the specific locations and periods covered. Such time and place most often represent key turning points in the paleontological history of life on Earth. Each chapter covers a specific geological time period and part of the world. And, through the next 15 chapters he goes further back in time to approximately 555 million years ago. Halliday starts the first chapter by going back in time about 20,000 years ago. Looking forward on a paleontology time scale, humankind will inevitably go extinct. However at each renewal, life takes on completely different forms that are adapted to the new environmental conditions. He observes cyclical changes, including cycles of ice ages and climate warming, and periods of mass extinction followed by periods of mass flourishing.
Halliday uncovers for the lay public the vast changes in fauna, flora, topography, and climate over the past 555 million years. The book was simultaneously published in English by Allen Lane (UK and Commonwealth), Random House (USA and Philippines), and Penguin Canada (Canada) in February 2022.
He goes as far back in time as approximately 555 million years ago. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds is a nonfiction book about palaeontology written by Thomas Halliday, a British palaeontologist.
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