The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

We all know what it was that wiped out the dinosaurs, right? That big meteor. But when exactly did it happen? What was the day like? What was the moment of impact like?

One of the most prolific writers on all things “fossiliferous,” Riley Black is the author of My Beloved Brontosaurus, Deep Time, Skeleton Key, and The Days of the Dinosaurs. In her latest book, she takes the reader into great detail about that fated day, that fated moment when the giant asteroid seven miles across slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula.

What were the moments of impact like? What did the dinosaurs see? What about hours after the impact? And days and weeks? Black gives you all the happenings for both the dinosaurs and the planet including the great change in weather that lasted years and truly ended the age of the dinosaurs and allowed something new to thrive, namely us, mammals.

Black writes in an easy way that is very readable and engaging, with plenty of humor and anecdotes, but also lots of science and history that doesn’t get bogged down in the jargon. It’s the perfect book for anyone wanting to know what it was like when the asteroid hit.