When the Earth Was Green will be out in about nine months, so that’s plenty of time to check out The Last Days of the Dinosaurs if you haven’t already! Both are narratives, drawn from the latest fossil finds, that envision what life was like long before us.
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Oh it certainly is! It starts about 1.2 billion years ago, little red algae in the shallows, through liverwort-like plants at the tide line, coal swamps, Triassic conifer groves, Jurassic floodplains dotted with ginkgoes, and on. I really wanted to mix the familiar and strange throughout.
