![]() ![]() And the more that I started to research on this– and I mean, paleontology is my beat, I write stories about some of these new discoveries– I realized that I had the story kind of, not entirely wrong, but I didn’t understand how much we had learned about it. And I realized I didn’t know as much about it as I probably should. ![]() To borrow that Seinfeld line, I kind of yadda yadda’d this extinction, right? Because a big rock strikes the planet, we assume that it’s going to cause a mass extinction somehow.īut there have been other impacts at other times that had nothing to do with any major extinction event. RILEY BLACK: Yeah, I realized that I hadn’t really done justice to the story. Why did you want to focus on the last days of the dinosaur in this book? You know, I know you have written several books, many about dinosaurs. RILEY BLACK: Oh, thank you so much for having me back on. Joining me is Riley Black, author of The Last Days of the Dinosaur, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ![]() As for humans, says the author, “we wouldn’t exist without the obliterating smack of cosmic rock that plowed itself into the ancient Yucatán.” Wouldn’t you like to know more? I would. The world changed literally overnight, if not faster. A new book traces what happened, from the immediate aftermath to thousands of years later. For the rest of the hour, we’re going back in time– way back– to explore what happened on Earth after that massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. ![]()
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