On top of a mountain in Antarctica, scientists discover a 190-million-year-old fossil. It is the first evidence found showing dinosaurs lived in mainland Antarctica. Hunt for fossils and discover what life might have been like there millions of years ago.
Bestselling Bryson sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. This is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What follows is a volume summarizing moments great and curious in the history of science, covering already well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics...