Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕
@restingdinoface.bsky.social
Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, and Tyrant Lizard Queen (2026). 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. http://rileyblack.net
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
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"Striking... weaving illuminating natural history into sparkling descriptions of what the Earth was like millions of years ago. This is another triumph from Black."
—Publishers Weekly, starred
When the Earth Was Green, out now in hardback, ebook, and audiobook.
Paperback blooms May 5, 2026. 🌱
—Publishers Weekly, starred
When the Earth Was Green, out now in hardback, ebook, and audiobook.
Paperback blooms May 5, 2026. 🌱
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Procrastinators, now is your time!
February 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Procrastinators, now is your time!
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🗣️ EVERYBODY'S SHORT ON ALL FOURS, NOBODY'S SCARY WHEN THEY'RE BOUND AND GAGGED
Top that tall chick, dom that scary girl, she's probably sick of being in control all the time.
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
🗣️ EVERYBODY'S SHORT ON ALL FOURS, NOBODY'S SCARY WHEN THEY'RE BOUND AND GAGGED
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Read @heideerdrich.bsky.social's eloquent essay "Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: 'No One is Illegal on Stolen Land,'” read @mprnews.org's article about the ice sculptures, then attend the vigil and ceremony at 6:00 p.m. this evening at the top of Lake of the Isles in MPLS. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land”
This is a place where some creatures, when gassed and shoved, bloom with butterflies and song, where jelly dongs rain down upon our enemies and where a censored snow sculpture melts and resolves in…
lithub.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Read @heideerdrich.bsky.social's eloquent essay "Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: 'No One is Illegal on Stolen Land,'” read @mprnews.org's article about the ice sculptures, then attend the vigil and ceremony at 6:00 p.m. this evening at the top of Lake of the Isles in MPLS. lithub.com/letter-from-...
I know I’ve been boosting my new stuff, but if you haven’t read The Last Days of the Dinosaurs yet
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
bookshop.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I know I’ve been boosting my new stuff, but if you haven’t read The Last Days of the Dinosaurs yet
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
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The weirdness of the Paleogene must be appreciated.
February 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The weirdness of the Paleogene must be appreciated.
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My new favorite word that I am going to legitimately try to practice
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
My new favorite word that I am going to legitimately try to practice
Some of my all time favorite Mesozoic movie creatures. When else does Chasmosaurus get to do anything cool? And I’m always cheering for the plesiosaur.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Stop-Motion shots
YouTube video by Patrick Parenteau
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February 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Some of my all time favorite Mesozoic movie creatures. When else does Chasmosaurus get to do anything cool? And I’m always cheering for the plesiosaur.
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Learned helplessness.
Really feeling it lately.
Really feeling it lately.
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Learned helplessness.
Really feeling it lately.
Really feeling it lately.
Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...
www.nature.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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It really is just tea, slightly better than average tea even
February 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
It really is just tea, slightly better than average tea even
When Joey was a kitten and I was recovering from surgery, she liked to fall asleep on my chest. Now she’s several times larger and any time I linger in bed, here she comes to sit on my sternum, knead my stomach, and curl up with a boob for a pillow. I can feel her purr herself to sleep.
February 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
When Joey was a kitten and I was recovering from surgery, she liked to fall asleep on my chest. Now she’s several times larger and any time I linger in bed, here she comes to sit on my sternum, knead my stomach, and curl up with a boob for a pillow. I can feel her purr herself to sleep.
No I said it’s *blustery* out. “Busty out” is when I go outside.
February 7, 2026 at 12:44 PM
No I said it’s *blustery* out. “Busty out” is when I go outside.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
It’s howling and blustering outside, Hobbes, Strata, and Joey curled tight against me in here. Our last common ancestor lived more than 66 million years ago but we all know to share warmth.
February 7, 2026 at 9:40 AM
It’s howling and blustering outside, Hobbes, Strata, and Joey curled tight against me in here. Our last common ancestor lived more than 66 million years ago but we all know to share warmth.
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I'll have a rare one-off canvas print of this little guy and his friend at the February 1st Friday Vendor Fair at the Borough Gym in Palmer, #Alaska 350 East Dahlia Ave from 10am to 5pm tomorrow the 7th!
#AlaskaSky #BSNM #CraftFair #crafts #art #valentine #gift
#AlaskaSky #BSNM #CraftFair #crafts #art #valentine #gift
I don't share out this one often enough! A Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum sits down to talk to a little friend on the end of its nose.
Available on Neatoshop:
www.neatoshop.com/product/Pach...
#sciart #paleoart #dinosaur #pachyrhinosaurus
Available on Neatoshop:
www.neatoshop.com/product/Pach...
#sciart #paleoart #dinosaur #pachyrhinosaurus
February 7, 2026 at 8:02 AM
I'll have a rare one-off canvas print of this little guy and his friend at the February 1st Friday Vendor Fair at the Borough Gym in Palmer, #Alaska 350 East Dahlia Ave from 10am to 5pm tomorrow the 7th!
#AlaskaSky #BSNM #CraftFair #crafts #art #valentine #gift
#AlaskaSky #BSNM #CraftFair #crafts #art #valentine #gift
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What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones?
Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.
philpapers.org/archive/WARH...
Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.
philpapers.org/archive/WARH...
February 4, 2026 at 11:55 AM
What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones?
Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.
philpapers.org/archive/WARH...
Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.
philpapers.org/archive/WARH...
New dinosaur Haolong dongi looks like it would have felt itchy to bite. I like that strategy. Not spikes or armor but “Your mouth is going to feel real uncomfortable if you chomp on me.”
“Spiny dragon” reveals hidden secrets of dinosaur skin after 125 million years | Institute of Natural Sciences
An exceptionally well-preserved fossil from China reveals the true appearance and possible defence strategies of iguanodontian dinosaurs. The new species Haolong dongi preserves skin at cellular level...
www.naturalsciences.be
February 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
New dinosaur Haolong dongi looks like it would have felt itchy to bite. I like that strategy. Not spikes or armor but “Your mouth is going to feel real uncomfortable if you chomp on me.”
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February 7, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Why use words when you’ve got eyeshine?
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Why use words when you’ve got eyeshine?
Sometimes I forget I have a uv reactive tattoo of a pup hood behind my thigh.
No wonder they keep following me.
No wonder they keep following me.
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Sometimes I forget I have a uv reactive tattoo of a pup hood behind my thigh.
No wonder they keep following me.
No wonder they keep following me.