Riley Black is a science writer and amateur paleontologist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, right in the center of dinosaur country, where she chases tales of vanished lives from museum collections to remote badlands.
Riley’s published books include Written in Stone, my favorite and critically-acclaimed My Beloved Brontosaurus, When Dinosaurs Ruled, Prehistoric Predators, and her newest: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, a fascinating, emotional page-turner that explores the minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, and centuries after the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Chicxulub asteroid 66 million years ago.
Riley’s journey and storytelling are powerful and so important in this moment when we’re so ready to move on to the next thing that we haven’t taken the time to cherish the people, the places, the world around us, and how lucky we are to have them.
00:00 Intro
02:42 Why is Riley vital to the survival of the species
05:13 What does the age of dinosaurs really mean
09:04 What interests Riley in dinosaurs
12:50 Nourishing her intrest
15:07 Ways of finding safe places and nourishing mental health
22:34 The backstory of “The Last Days of the Dinosaurs”
29:18 Storytelling approach to current events
38:56 Takeaways from the dinosaurs extinction
44:07 Finding beauty in the shades
53:10 Action steps to take
56:33 First time Riley felt she has a power of change
58:13 Who has impacted her life in the last 6 months
59:16 Book that has changed her thinking
01:01:10 Where you can find Riley
01:01:31 Outro
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