Riley Black

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Riley Black


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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, and When Dinosaurs Ruled. An online columnist for Scientific American, Riley has become a widely-recognized expert on paleontology and has appeared on programs such as Science Friday, HuffingtonPost Live, and All Things Considered. Riley has also written on nerdy pop culture.

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The Last Days of the Dinosa...

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“The battle for life on the first day of the Paleocene is won and lost by little more than biological threads. Only those organisms that are able to find shelter—below the ground, beneath the water—have any chance. All others, from the largest Edmontosaurus to the smallest insect, perish. There is no behavior that can save them. Evolution prepared them for the world of tomorrow, and perhaps the day after, but not for this.”
Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

“This is not a monument to loss. This is an ode to resilience that can only be seen in the wake of catastrophe.”
Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

“It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning without disaster.”
Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

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