Dr Thomas Hallidayさんのイラストまとめ

#OTHERLANDS countdown - 15/16

In the Rift Valley, where the Kerio flows into Lake Lonyumun, the Pliocene ancestors and cousins of today's East African fauna gather in great numbers. Among them, early hominins, at the headwaters of the river of humanity.

ONE WEEK TO PUBLICATION!

#OTHERLANDS countdown - 8/16

Wind blows through the uniform canopy of a Podozamites conifer forest in what will be Kyrgyzstan. A tiny, streaking figure blurs through the mountain air, arms and legs thrown wide. The woods of Madygen are full of strange, experimental wonders...

#OTHERLANDS countdown - 5/16
(11 weeks to go)

In the lower reaches of a vast mountain range, tiny plants grow around the hot springs of Rhynie. Animals, plants, and fungi are collaborating, competing, and exploiting one another as life gains a foothold - and roothold - on land.

#OTHERLANDS countdown - 2/16

Chengjiang is a worm-eat-worm world. Modern animals are diversifying, and predators are becoming widespread. Eyes, armour, burrowing, and swimming are all becoming common as modern food webs begin to be spun.

'Otherlands' - coming 3rd Feb 2022.

The earliest known bunny (or bunny-like animal) lived 53 million years ago in a tropical rainforest in what would become India. At this time, India was an island continent, not yet fully physically connected to Asia. (Ypresian map by Ron Blakey)