Kirk Johnson is an American paleontologist. He has worked at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
Ranger Megan Patel loses her brother, Daniel, under mysterious circumstances. Struggling to understand how he died, she finds herself alone, venturing into the vast pine forest. However, as she follows the trail of her brother into the woods, the trees begin to change and shift around her. Soon Megan arrives in places without any recollection of how she got there. Almost as if something is pulling her deeper into the woods. Something dark and dangerous, that Megan might not be able to escape.
Renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson takes us on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of our planet. Following a trail of strange fossils found in all the wrong places—beech trees in Antarctica, hippo-like mammals in the Arctic—Johnson uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-high ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life. What caused such dramatic changes at the ends of the Earth? And what can the past reveal about our planet’s climate today—and in the future?
Cinco veces, la Tierra se ha enfrentado a acontecimientos apocalípticos que arrasaron con casi toda la vida de la faz del planeta. ¿Cómo eran estas criaturas prehistóricas? ¿Qué catástrofes provocaron su desaparición? ¿Y cómo sobrevivieron nuestros ancestros lejanos y dieron origen al mundo que conocemos hoy?
In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
