RILEY BLACK has been heralded as "one of our premier gifted young science writers" and is the critically-acclaimed author of Skeleton Keys, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Written in Stone, and When Dinosaurs Ruled. A science correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine,
Riley has become a widely-recognized expert on paleontology and has appeared on programs
such as NOVA, Science Friday, and All Things Considered. When not writing about fossils, Riley joins museum crews to find new fossils across the American west.
