The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World - Riley Black Audiobook
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Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books!
“This is top-drawer science writing.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers 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.
“This is pop science that reads like a fantasy novel, but backed up by hard facts and the latest fossil discoveries. Black is pioneering a new narrative prehistorical nonfiction.” ― Steve Brusatte, New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4.4/5
February 10th, 2024
Thanks for sharing rmoor
February 11th, 2024
*New computer analysis hints volcanism killed the dinosaurs, not an asteroid*
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Scientists take a creative approach to investigating what caused the mass extinction
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“The result of that computational effort suggests that massive bursts of gas produced by the Deccan Traps eruptions were solely capable of causing the extinction event, the team reports in the Sept. 29 Science. Those eruptions, which lasted roughly a million years, spewed massive amounts of gas-ridden lava across what’s now western India.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-computer-volcanism-killed-dinosaurs-asteroid
Beware kids most mass extinctions [7 known] and lesser extinction periods were triggered via global warming, via volcanism [traps] burn buried carbon [fossil fuels] & emitting loads of green house gases to the atmosphere. Today’s humans are the volcanism, only humans are spewing the greenhouse gasses at a rate far faster than any volcanic ever did. The comparison is not even close. In 275 years the humans have puked out more greenhouse gasses than thousands of years of volcanism did and not only are we not done, we break emissions record every year with the minor exception of 2005 GFC & 1 year for Covid. 2023 was a new emissions record. The old record was 2022. No need to panic because it was to late to save the humans 20+ years ago. We’re just playing out the string. I won’t be alive in 2100 & I’ll wager no humans will be alive in 2100.
February 12th, 2024
Humans are prodigious polluters, no doubt, but our 175 years of industrialization doesn’t hold a candle to an all-out eruption. Toba changed the climate for a century. Krakatoa took away the sun and summer for nearly two years. Volcanoes did, in fact, help end the dinosaurs. Disease was also a factor in wiping out the tyrant lizards. The K-T impact event was what set everything in motion.
February 12th, 2024
Malachic50 is correct. In the book the Dinosaur Heresies, Bob Bakker presented evidence that disease (from migrations due to land mass changes) was decimating the dinosaur populations (as well as a decline in diversity), and the meteor just finished them off. But volcanos could have contributed as well, although its a long shot to say they were the sole reason.
Thank you rmoor!!
February 13th, 2024
Thank you rmoor!
March 2nd, 2024
Superb
August 22nd, 2024
apnea google earth historical CO2 levels. look at 600 million years ago until now. We can’t hold a candle to volcanoes. Its been 8000 ppm, barely got below 4000 in 200 million years, then snowball earth, then it averaged 2000 for another 200 million. Its now at like 380, up from 50 pre-industrial.
Don’t drink the kookaid and look at the 10,000 year graph, which implies were doomed like never before. Its doubtful anyone will ever fully understand the extinction of the dinosaurs in full context. Earths atmosphere has a large influence on how large lifeforms get, and the era of huge vertebrates was over. Hence why they didn’t go extinct but just got much smaller and less dominant.
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