Summary of the book 'How dinosaurs died. The Murderous Asteroid and the Birth of a New World' Black R.:This book is unique. Riley Black reproduces the picture of the events of the Cretaceous mass extinction using examples of specific animals as if she was present there and then herself. It all starts on the eve of the disaster, 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 the collision of our planet with an asteroid.While the end of the world is approaching, we will learn how triceratops suffers from cancer, how difficult it is for Tyrannosaurus rex to feed its huge body, and how dangerous this world is for an alamosaurus that has barely hatched from an egg and abandoned by its mother. But the scariest — and most interesting — is ahead. In order not to distract the reader from the plot, at the end of the book Black gives an extensive appendix with comments explaining which of the descriptions correspond to scientific facts, and what is speculated in the portraits and biographies of the characters. However, science does not stand still, and it is likely that today's hypothetical constructions of the author will find confirmation tomorrow. Read more…