the last days of the dinosaurs by riley black

See it unfolding through the eyes of the victim dinosaurs and the survivor mammals.

Riley Black brings every step of the crisis and the recovery to life in this novelization of the crisis. Cohen, Associate Professor in Geosciences at Williams College, Massachusettsĭuring the most famous mass extinction, the dinosaurs died and the mammals survived. I'd never before thought about what it must have felt like for a dinosaur to have lice, or for an early primate to be woken by birdsong, but now these images are seared into my memory, thanks to Black's skilful imagining of this lost world - Phoebe A. Black's writing brings the last days of the dinosaurs and the critical first days, years and millennia afterwards to vivid life, portraying a dynamic world full of living, breathing creatures. While the human endeavour of palaeontology is infused into every page of this book, Black skilfully shifts it to the background and instead carries us straight into the forests, rivers and plains of the Cretaceous and Paleogene world.

It's Call of the Wild meets Armageddon - Elsa Panciroli, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and author of Beasts Before Us Mostly told from the animals' perspectives, you share the experiences of a host of organisms including mammals, insects and plants. This tale could be bleak, but Black turns our planet's interstellar wound and subsequent transition into a story of hope and resilience. Facts are woven deftly into the narrative, parachuting you back in time to watch events unfold first-hand. Black guides you through Earth's darkest hours - when an asteroid decimated the thriving dinosaurian world - and out the other side into a bright new evolutionary landscape. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs reveals the links between the deep past and present-day ecosystems. This book is as vivid as a fairy-tale, brought to life by Black's scientifically informed imagination. Black is pioneering a new genre: narrative prehistorical non-fiction - Steve Brusatte, Personal Chair of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh and Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs This is pop science that reads like a fantasy novel, but backed up by hard facts and the latest fossil discoveries. rex and Triceratops felt as their world ended in an apocalypse of fire and famine on the single worst day in Earth history, and what our mammal ancestors felt as they emerged on the other side, in a ghostly void ripe for renewal. Immerse yourself in the last moments of the dinosaur empire, as Riley Black weaves a tale of destruction, survival and rebirth in the wake of a killer asteroid. Black blends the intricacies of science with masterful storytelling for a cracking, enchanting read. A marvellous look at what happened after the asteroid hit Earth will make readers feel like a kid discovering dinosaurs for the first time.

The last days of the dinosaurs by riley black