Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, March 22nd, 2021.

I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria, and before we get to our guests this week, I want to take a moment to thank those of you who make talk nerdy possible. And remember, there are a lot of ways to support the show. It is and will always be 100% free to download and that's because

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All right, let's talk about this week's show.

I am thrilled because I was able to sit down

with an old friend, Riley Black,

to talk all about paleo. So Riley is kind of the

queen of the paleo world. She has written so many interesting books, written in

stone my beloved Brontosaurus, skeleton keys, and also is a freelance

writer for a ton of publications from Nat Geo to Smithsonian, even writing for the Jurassic world franchise, and she spends quite a bit of time doing field work herself and really digging deep into the history of organisms on this planet.

So I'm thrilled that after several, several years

we were able to link back up.

So without any further ado,

here she is, Riley Black.

Well, Riley, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you so much for having me back.

It's been a million years or 10 million years or something like that.

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