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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, 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. Lifes 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. Its 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 dont 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.
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Bookwormjillk
Bookwormjillk
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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So much fun reading about dinosaurs this month with #Naturalitsy

Weirdly my favorite parts were not about the dinosaurs but about the ferns and the appendix where the author explained the thought process behind each chapter. I wish this was available for every book!

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Cuilin
Cuilin
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

“Catastrophe is never convenient”

This is the first line of the preface and I have to say in all my years of reading, this is one of the most beautiful prefaces I have ever read. The last paragraph is so moving I‘ve read it a few times and I read it out to my husband and to my eldest daughter.

#NaturalLitsy @AllDebooks

AllDebooks It is an incredible start. 😊 3w
Bookwormjillk Can‘t wait to start this! 3w
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LitsyEvents
LitsyEvents
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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Repost for @AllDebooks

Eek, I'm excited for this one. Stomp, stomp, stomp, here come the 🦖🦕 for a little while.

#NaturaLitsy August #buddyread is Riley Black's 2022 book examines the aftermath of the asteroid strike and the role of evolution in earth's recovery.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2885569

AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 1mo
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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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Eek, I'm excited for this one. Stomp, stomp, stomp, here come the 🦖🦕 for a little while.

#NaturaLitsy August #buddyread is Riley Black's 2022 book examines the aftermath of the asteroid strike and the role of evolution in earth's recovery.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

@LitsyEvents

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DyAnne
DyAnne
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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“If there is any clear message in the fossil record, any distilled takeaway that the entire history of life on Earth speaks to with a full and clear voice, it‘s that no species is inevitable.”

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vivastory
vivastory
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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Might fuck around and watch the new Jurassic World trailer on repeat all afternoon. In related dinosaur news, I ordered the new tagged book last night. It features a blurb from Steve Brusatte!

Branwen This movie looks absolutely incredible!!! 3y
vivastory @Branwen I *might* take the day off from work to see it 🦖 3y
sprainedbrain I can‘t wait for this… I will even tolerate Pratt in the theater for the originals. 🎉 3y
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TorieStorieS
TorieStorieS
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | Riley Black
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Like many kids, I went through a dinosaur phase (it was the theme of my 5th birthday!), so when I saw this one I was excited to catch up on new ideas and theories that I had missed in newspaper articles. The unconventional format sets this up almost like speculative fiction with a timeline detailing the days before, during and then dropping in the aftermath. The appendix provides more factual basis but it‘s not the scholarly approach I hoped for…

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