Bibliograph

The last days of the dinosaurs, an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world, Riley Black

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The last days of the dinosaurs, an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world, Riley Black

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last days of the dinosaurs

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Riley Black

Sub title

an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world

Summary

Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek ecosystem of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. But in a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. This is the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. As we watch, an asteroid some seven miles across is set to slam into the earth, leaving a geologic wound over fifty miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that will follow, more than half of known species will vanish seemingly overnight. 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, drawing from the latest science to track the sweeping disruptions that overtook Hell Creek and the rest of the planet

Target audience

adult

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