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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

By: Riley Black
Narrated by: Kay Eluvian
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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.

Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. 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. 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.

©2022 Riley Black (P)2022 W F Howes Animals Biological Sciences Earth Sciences Outdoors & Nature Physics Science Paleontology Natural History

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Critic reviews

"A marvelous look at what happened after the asteroid hit Earth will make readers feel like a kid discovering dinosaurs for the first time." (Newsweek)
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The reader almost put me to sleep - a good book, but needs a different reader!

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it is written in a sort of story book style, but a very informative story. Incredible detail of species behaviour achievable from fossilised bones and understanding of current ecology/zoology/geology. I like the narration but he talks too slowly, I had to speed it up to x1.2

unique writing style

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An excellent book, Riley Black is brilliant, but I couldn't cope with the narration. I was only able to listen to it at x1.3. speed.

Excellent!

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I would definitely recommend this book, but the audiobook is poorly edited with a few sentences or phrases repeating.

Good Book, Bad editing

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a beautiful and poignant take on evolutionary biology, natural disaster and mass extinction. Told through the eyes of individuals

outstanding

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An enlightening book, and a decent narrator. Unfortunately, lots of the book was ruined by errors in the audio. On several occasions, different takes of entire paragraphs were included, taking you out of the flow entirely. Similar happened with large (10s) gaps between sentences. Could do with more polish.

Ruined by audio glitches

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I bought this audiobook hoping to hear about the last days of the dinosaurs. What I in fact got was seven hours of drivel.

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