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plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance
A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth. Fossil plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, and even humans would not exist without the evolutionary efforts of their leafy counterparts. It has been the constant growth of plants that have allowed so many of our favorite, fascinating prehistoric creatures to evolve, oxygenating the atmosphere, coaxing animals onto land and forming the forests that shaped our ancestors' anatomy. It is impossible to understand our history without them. Or, our future. Using the same scientifically-informed narrative technique that readers loved in the award-winning The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, in When the Earth Was Green, Riley Black brings readers back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Each chapter stars plants and animals alike, underscoring how the interactions between species have helped shape the world we call home. As the chapters move upwards in time, Black guides readers along the burgeoning trunk of the Tree of Life, stopping to appreciate branches of an evolutionary story that links the world we know with one we can only just perceive now through the silent stone, from ancient roots to the present.
Sex in the shallows-1.2 billion years ago -- Worts and all-425 million years ago -- The forest primeval-307 million years ago -- Fire and water-220 million years ago -- Land of giants-150 million years ago -- In bloom-125 million years ago -- A sticky situation-100 million years ago -- Rainforest and revival-60 million years ago -- Adrift-40 million years ago -- Seas of grass-34 million years ago -- Partners in pollination-17 million years ago -- 'Nip trip-9 million years ago -- Far from the tree-6 million years ago -- Ancient autumn-3 million years ago -- After the ice-15,000 years ago.
Riley Black ; [illustrations by Kory Bing].
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-291).
NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures