{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61da34ca3a030a0012a60626/6264588e9b00b300123248bd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Riley Black on Extinction, Evolution, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61da34ca3a030a0012a60626/1641827536655-67c6b4be5f9e1edb60e8906870bbf84b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>You may know that an asteroid drove the dinosaurs extinct, but do you know what happened after the asteroid hit, and how we got from <em>T. rex</em>'s world to ours? Digging into these questions can reveal a lot about how ecology and evolution work, and perhaps help us make sense of humanity's place in the web of life. To explore all this and more, I speak with science writer and amateur paleontologist Riley Black, author of <em>The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World.</em></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250271044/thelastdaysofthedinosaurs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the book</a></p><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Laelaps\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Riley on Twitter</a></p><p><a href=\"http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/11/dinosauroids-revisited.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read about the \"dinosauroid\" thought experiment</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://apple6.aweb.page/p/de4ee963-cd8d-4ced-9975-e13965236a7d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for free weekly Storytelling Animals newsletter here</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/storytellingpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Support this podcast on Patreon here</a></p><p><br></p><p>The May 31 Storytelling Animals Book Club meetings will be about&nbsp;<em>The Fifth Season&nbsp;</em>by N.K Jemisin. Join the book club at&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/storytellingpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">our Patreon page</a>&nbsp;or (to attend one meeting as a free trial) by&nbsp;<a href=\"https://apple6.aweb.page/p/de4ee963-cd8d-4ced-9975-e13965236a7d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the newsletter.</a></p>","author_name":"Dayton Martindale"}