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Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books!

"This is top-drawer science writing." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping…

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