After The Story of Birds
Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
If Brusatte made you see dinosaurs in every pigeon, Halliday will haunt your backyard with half a billion years of vanished worlds. Otherlands reconstructs sixteen fossil snapshots—Cambrian reefs, Eocene rainforests, Pleistocene tundras—with the same forensic detective work and rollicking swagger, except now the crime scene spans continents and eons. Terror sloths, walking whales, and armor-plated worms navigate mass extinctions with peer-reviewed chaos and zero fluff.