9 Jan, 2025
Miscellaneous Reviews
Riley Black’s 2025 When the Earth Was Green is, as the subtitle proclaims, about plants, animals, and evolution’s greatest romance: the one between plants and animals.
24 Oct, 2024
Miscellaneous Reviews
Riley Black’s 2022 The Last Days of the Dinosaurs is a popular science book.
Last Days is not, as one might expect from the title, focused on the non-avian dinosaurs’ sudden demise, although that is covered. The subtitle reads “An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World” for a reason.
Every beginning begins with an end. Sixty-six million years ago, an Everest-sized rock slammed into the Yucatan at interplanetary speeds, erasing one world and making room for ours.