In his new book, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, out this week, Halliday writes about primordial history as though we could witness it first-hand, bringing life to prehistoric geese that were as ornery as their modern-day cousins, towering forests that transformed our planet, and dinosaurs that lived before the evolution of flowers. “I essentially had free rein to go and run about, and I became very interested in the natural world.”įittingly, the boy who explored the ancient forest went on to become a paleontologist. “It was such a diverse and wonderful place to explore as a 7-year-old,” Halliday told Vox. The pinewoods were like living fossils, a remnant of the last glacial period and a bygone age when the west coast of Scotland was covered in trees.
When Thomas Halliday was a young lad in the village of Rannoch, Scotland, he loved exploring the Caledonian Forest.
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