Picture it... the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, Hell Creek, Montana. An asteroid hits. What happens next?

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• Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! One of Newsweek's 22 Books for 2022, a Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Books of 2022, and a Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of April.
• Called one of the top 40 "science social media wizards" by Business Insider and one of "Twitter's 8 coolest geeks" by HLN, Riley has a broad and enthusiastic social media presence--over 32.3k Twitter followers.
• Riley has become a widely-recognized expert on paleontology and has appeared on programs such as Science Friday, HuffingtonPost Live, and NPR's All Things Considered. She was the "resident paleontologist" on Jurassic World. She is an online columnist for Scientific American whose work has appeared in Slate, Science, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. She has also delivered public talks at a wide variety of venues and will be giving the keynote at the 2022 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference.