riley black the last days of the dinosaurs

Riley has also written on nerdy pop culture.In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. An online columnist for Scientific American, Riley has become a widely-recognized expert on paleontology and has appeared on programs such as Nova, Science Friday, HuffingtonPost Live, and All Things Considered. RILEY BLACK (she/her) has been heralded as “one of our premier gifted young science writers” and is the critically-acclaimed author of Skeleton Keys, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Written in Stone, and When Dinosaurs Ruled.

THE LAST DAYS OF THE DINOSAURS is a story of both a fall and a rise the end of the largest, strangest and most ferocious land animals our Earth has ever seen and the beginning of a story that ends in us. This is an ode to resilience that can only be seen in the wake of catastrophe.” Life’s losses were sharp and deeply felt 66 million years ago,” writes Black “ but each fiddlehead struggling for light, each shivering mammal in its burrow, each turtle that plopped off a log into weed-choked waters set the stage for the world as we know it now. This is also “ the story of how life bounces back from the worst day in history.

But while The Last Days of the Dinosaurs starts with the worst single day in the history of life on Earth, that’s not where the story ends. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition.

Lush vegetation will be replaced with fire. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period it’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago.

Riley black the last days of the dinosaurs