A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters as the lambs are born

as the lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the fells

Woven into accounts of these creatures’ behaviour are informative nuggets such as Cardinal Wolsey's fear of spiders and how flies can solve murders

Familiar favourites– features the 12 night-time creatures that are most likely to inhabit British gardens including bats

Neglected in the past for their lack of flowers

uniquely retold through 50 of the most significant findings from the fossil record

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters as the lambs are bornHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where youre standing was once cooked under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or rampaged across by fearsome monsters. Come to think of it, probably most or all of the above. Placing twenty first century climate change in deep context, this is an