![]() ![]() This fossil mammal, Ectoconus, was a revolutionary. We could tell from its pelvis that it gave birth to live, well-developed young. My colleague Tom Williamson had found a skeleton-one belonging to a big animal, weighing around 100 kilograms. On one trip, in 2014, I followed their trail into a dry creek bed sacred to the Navajo called Kimbeto-the “sparrowhawk spring.” From the other end of the wash, I heard a victory yelp. rex, but teeth with complex cusps and valleys. And then, suddenly, the bones disappear.Īs we continue walking up through the rock layers, we begin to notice a new type of fossil. The ground is littered with busted Tyrannosaurus rex limbs and chunks of vertebrae that anchored the lofty necks of sauropods some 66.9 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. As we hike across the pastel-striped badlands, we can’t help but tread on dinosaur bones. Consider leaving an honest review or rating on iTunes/Apple Podcasts and give us a shout and on Twitter.Every spring I bring my students to the desert of northwestern New Mexico, just north of Chaco Canyon, where the ancestral Pueblo people built a great city out of rocks a millennium ago. I love Steve’s passion and energy and I hope you do too.Īnyhoo…That ought to do it, friends. You can’t be noticed, you can’t be recognized unless you’re putting it out there. It’s what I like to say is BEING IN THE GAME. What’s so great about this show is Steve’s passion for his work and the story behind the book, which is part serendipity, but more just how doing your THING, whatever that is over and over and over again SHOWING UP and what good things can come if that happens. The entirety of the book is brilliant but the way Steve talks about T-rexes and the Asteroid are some of the most compelling reading you’ll come across. Today I present to you Steve Brusatte ( on Twitter), author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of the Lost World. Leaders in narrative journalism, doc film, radio, podcasting, essay, and memoir stop by Digital CNFPod HQ to talk about how they go about the work so you can apply those tools of mastery-if you so choose-to your own work. It’s The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the show where I speak to the best about telling true stories. Steve Brusatte, author of “The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.” ![]()
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