The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

This is top-drawer science writing.–Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn 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.

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.