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What would it have been like to witness the last moments of the dinosaurs just after the asteroid struck the Earth?

It raises the air temperature all around the planet to about 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

So if you ever broiled a chicken, that's about what you broil a chicken at.

And T-Rex was more or less a broiled chicken within about 24 hours of this impact.

It's Tuesday, December 3rd, and you're listening to Science Friday.

I'm sci-fri producer Dee Petersmith.

We're returning with more of our listeners' favorite segments for our 33rd anniversary.

And today we're going back in time, first to 2022 when this interview originally aired,

and then way back to explore what happened on Earth after that massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

I reflato talked to an author of a book that traced what happened from the immediate aftermath to

thousands of years later.

Joining me is Riley Black, author of The Last Days of the Dinosaur, based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much for having me back on.

You're quite welcome.

You know, I know you have written several books, many about dinosaurs.

Why did you want to focus on the last days of the dinosaur in this book?

Yeah, I realized that I hadn't really done justice to the story to borrow that Seinfeld

line.

I kind of yada yada-a- of yada yada this extinction, right? Because

a big rock strikes the planet. We assume that it's going to cause a mass extinction somehow.

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