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

"Picture yourself in the cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Greek ecosystem of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest, enjoying this endless summer of the dinosaurs. But in a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. As we watch, an asteroid some seven miles across is set to slam into Earth, leaving a geologic wound over fifty miles in diameter, and bringing an end to the Age of Dinosaurs. In the terrible mass extinction that will follow, more than half of known species will vanish seemingly overnight. The dinosaurs will all but diappear as mammals will rise to claim and reshape the planet, and you will be a witness to this fantastic transformation. In The Last Day of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, drawing from the latest science to track the sweeping disruptions that overtook Hell Greek and the rest of the planet. Even during a time of horrible destruction and loss, life will find a way."-- Back cover.