The Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Riley Black

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
2024 | New edition
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80399-653-0 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
A fascinating exploration of the world’s worst mass extinction – and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet
Some 66 million years 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 vanish seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life of 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. 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. 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.

RILEY BLACK has been heralded as ‘one of our premier gifted young science writers’ and is the critically acclaimed author of Skeleton Keys, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Written in Stone, When Dinosaurs Ruled and Deep Time. Her work has appeared in Science, The New York Times, Nature, Smithsonian and more. Black also has a strong online presence, connecting with over 27,000 followers on Twitter, and has written on nerdy pop culture for websites like Slate, io9 and the Guardian. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-80399-653-6 / 1803996536
ISBN-13 978-1-80399-653-0 / 9781803996530
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
auf den Spuren der frühen Zivilisationen

von Harald Haarmann

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
20,00
die letzten 43000 Jahre

von Karin Bojs

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
26,00