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  title info:
    title: When the Earth was green
    sub title: plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance
  name:
    name part: Black, Riley
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bing, Kory
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Riley Black ; [illustrations by Kory Bing].
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-291).
  subject:
    topic: Paleobotany
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Plants
    topic: Evolution
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Plants, Fossil
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary paleoecology
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Plants
  classification: QE905 .B564 2025
  classification: 561
  identifier: 9781250288998
  identifier: 1250288991
  identifier: 9781250289001
  identifier: 2024042892
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241217
    record change date: 20250409131432.2
    record identifier: in00005641917