How Dinosaurs Died. The Deadly Asteroid and the Birth of a New World

This book is unique. Riley Black recreates the picture of the events of the Cretaceous mass extinction using specific animals, as if she were present there and then. It all begins on the eve of the catastrophe, and then, chapter... by chapter, we follow the path of Riley Black's heroes on different days of their lives: an hour, a day, a month, a year, a century, up to a million years after our planet collided with an asteroid. While the end of the world looms over Earth, we learn how a Triceratops suffers from a cancerous tumor, how hard it is for a Tyrannosaurus Rex to feed its enormous body, and how dangerous this world is for a newly hatched and abandoned by its mother Alamosaurus. But the most terrifying—and the most interesting—events are yet to come. To avoid distracting the reader from the plot, at the end of the book, Black provides an extensive appendix with comments explaining which descriptions correspond to scientific facts and what in the portraits and biographies of the heroes is fictionalized. However, science does not stand still, and it is quite possible that today's hypothetical constructions by the author will find confirmations tomorrow.