THE LAST DAYS of the DINOSAURS: AN ASTEROID, EXTINCTION, and the BEGINNING of OUR WORLD (audiobook) by Riley Black
Published in April of 2022 by Macmillan Audio. Read by Christina Delaine. Duration: 7 hours, 1 minute. Unabridged. As the title says, THE LAST DAYS of the DINOSAURS: AN ASTEROID, EXTINCTION, and the BEGINNING of OUR WORLD is about the asteroid that all but wiped out the dinosaurs and the world they lived in. Technically, very little of the book is about the asteroid itself but hopefully you get the idea. Riley Black does an excellent job of describing the presumed daily lives of the creatures that we know about before and after the fateful asteroid impact. The author starts out with the most famous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops, but also includes less famous dinosaurs, insects, plants and mammals. The primary focus is the American West (Wyoming, Utah, the Dakotas, etc.) one the most fossil-rich area in the world. But, other areas of the world are looked at as well. The step-by-step description of what scientists think happened in the seconds, minutes, hours, da