The last days of the dinosaurs : an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world /
Black, Riley,
The last days of the dinosaurs : an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world / Asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world. Riley Black. - First edition. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. - xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-287)
Geologic timeline -- Before impact -- Impact -- The first hour -- The first day -- The first month -- One year after impact -- One hundred years after impact -- One thousand years after impact -- One hundred thousand years after impact -- One million years after impact.
"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."--publisher's website.
1250271045 9781250271044
2021052246
Dinosaurs--Extinction.
Extinction (Biology)
QE721.2 .E97 / B57 2022
The last days of the dinosaurs : an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world / Asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world. Riley Black. - First edition. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. - xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-287)
Geologic timeline -- Before impact -- Impact -- The first hour -- The first day -- The first month -- One year after impact -- One hundred years after impact -- One thousand years after impact -- One hundred thousand years after impact -- One million years after impact.
"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."--publisher's website.
1250271045 9781250271044
2021052246
Dinosaurs--Extinction.
Extinction (Biology)
QE721.2 .E97 / B57 2022