3700万年前,在古地中海的水域里,一头足有15米长、阔口巨牙的天矫巨兽沉到海底死掉了。几百万年过去,它的骨骸蒙上了厚厚一层沉积物。这片大海也渐渐消退变成了沙漠,风霜慢慢刨去骨头上面的砂岩和页岩。地壳的变动把印度推入亚洲的版图并挤出了喜马拉雅山脉。在非洲,人类的始祖第一次靠后腿站 37 million years ago, in the waters of the ancient Mediterranean Sea, a giant 15-meter-long giant behemoth ganked to the bottom of the sea and died. Millions of years past, its skeleton covered with a thick layer of sediment. This sea is also gradually dissipated into the desert, wind and breeze slowly planing the sandstone and shale above the bones. The crustal changes push India into Asia’s territory and squeeze out the Himalayas. In Africa, the first human ancestor stood on his hind legs