
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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Narrated by:
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Christina Delaine
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By:
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Riley Black
2022 Library Journal Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
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.
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i liked having the narrative broken down to what happened following the PCE event in time segments: Preceeding, the moment of, first day, week, month, year, thousand years, million years and so on. This helps the reader to get an overview of the sequence of events.
I also liked the author sharing about her trans transition and using the example of that experience to say that the evolution of life is all about many different kinds of changes, I think her point is something along the lines that lots of those changes are painful and even deadly, but physical changes in individual organisms has always been a natural part of the evolution of life.
In fact, some place in the book the author writes something to the effect that "Diversity is more than the spice of life Diversity is the seeds that are necessarily sewn for the survival of a species.". I really liked the quote when I heard it. I am happy that yhe author was applying the idea to more than biology. I say well done to the author I thought the reading performance was top notch
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This is the best science book I have ever listened to
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an excellent book for all ages
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interesting take on life on earth
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storybook style
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A captivating read
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A scientific fairytale
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Beats Around the Bush
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