November 12, 2014 - 16:38
Taking us to Northern Rome and into the beautifully intricate mountains of the Apennine, Kolbert takes us into a world not normally seen. In the hill town of Gubbio, she finds such thing amazing things as remnants of past asteroids impacts a puzzle much more intricate than the naked eye could see. With iridium testing, a possible death by asteroid for Cretaceous creatures was made a hypothesis and yet another extinction would be uncovered. With a deeper look into the fossil record, it would be realized that large gaps of evolution were lost and fragmentation existed. Exploring more archeological areas in Texas and in the Gulf of Mexico, another piece to the puzzle would be discovered. Later the use of Ammonite fossils would complete the investigation. They ultimately would play a parallel to humans because their acts of living wound up causing their own destruction, as concluded by Landman.