The Last Days of the Dinosaurs The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

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Publisher Description

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. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now.

Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. They just don’t know it yet.

The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

GENRE
Travel & Adventure
NARRATOR
CD
Christina Delaine
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
08:53
hr min
RELEASED
2022
April 26
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Audio
SIZE
471.9
MB

Customer Reviews

C.Schillings ,

Informatively Entertaining !!

Mr Black does well with this book what few manage to sometimes do when communicating about scientific knowledge, makes it a fun and visually imaginative experience! Compiling his work off all of the current known paleontological data out there he takes us on a sequential journey traveling chapter by chapter further away from the cataclysm that ended the Dino age and made way for the age we now live in. Reading it I’m left meditating on just how fragile our ecosystem is and our symbiotic relationship with it and ultimately our responsibilities towards it because of this. Great info though, some I’d never read before and once again it was an absolutely engrossing listen and I recommend it for anyone interested in the subject. He should consider doing a feature length documentary based off this book as well to accompany it but it’s so well written it stands on its own as it is. I look forward to reading more books from Riley Black!

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