Riley Black at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
Harvard Book Store welcomes Riley Black —science correspondent for Smithsonian, widely-recognized expert on paleontology, and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs —for a discussion of their new book, Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore. About Tyrant Lizard Queen From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs , an imaginative celebration of T. Rex from hatching to adulthood. Tyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length and weighing over 9 tons, the largest individuals of this dinosaurian species were intimidating predators capable of crushing bone and consuming more than a hundred pounds of flesh in a bite. But the last of the tyrant dinosaurs had a life beyond ripping and tearing. More than 66 million years ago, T. rex courted each other, nested, watched over their offspring, slept, drank, and explored ancient floodplains inhabited by a fantastic cast of impressive dinosaurs like the huge long-neck Alamosaurus and burly, three-horned Torosaurus . For the first time, the life story of this impressive, sensitive predator is told as if you were there to watch it unfold. In her…