“Otherlands” by Thomas Halliday (2022)

“Dawn is breaking in the Alaskan night, where a small herd of horses, four adults and three foals, huddle against the frigid north-easterly wind.”

Thanks to film and television, we think we have a very clear picture of what the planet used to look like. However, what we know is but a fraction of what happened back then. Fossilisation is a very rare process, despite how it appears, so there are likely billions of species we don’t know about. Even the ones we have, we can’t guarantee we’re picturi...