The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

Imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period. A sunny day in Hell Creek 66 million years ago. A Triceratops grazes on the edge of a forest. A male Oviraptor builds a nest in the tall grass. Ankylosaurus cubs play with a club on the end of their mother’s tail. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped off the face of the earth. The lush greenery will be consumed by fire. A devastating cataclysm will overthrow the T. rex from the evolutionary throne, and with it all other non-avian dinosaurs, regardless of their size, diet, or physique.

They just don’t know it yet.

The cause of the catastrophe will be a ten-kilometer asteroid that will crash into the Earth and cause the extinction of 75% of the species of plants and animals of that time. In his book, Riley Black tells what happened in the days, years, centuries, and millions of years after the collision, recreating with amazing accuracy the decline of the age of dinosaurs. That terrible day, life on Earth took a hit, and at the same time, this impact created new evolutionary opportunities for the creatures that survived and laid the foundation for the new world we observe today.