yeovilliteraryfestival

THIS IS A YEOVIL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022 EVENT
OCTAGON AUDITORIUM

Dr Thomas Halliday - Otherlands

Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today.

We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. New research has transformed paleobiology in the last decade and Halliday shows us details which the fossil record is revealing for the first time - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air.

Tickets: £12
Footlights: Discount Applies

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Yeovil Literary Festival Events last approximately 60 minutes.