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John Reese
John Reese studied Native American studies, ancient history and archaeology while attending Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. While at Montana State, he was selected in...view moreJohn Reese studied Native American studies, ancient history and archaeology while attending Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. While at Montana State, he was selected into advanced archaeology and went on to become an archaeological field supervisor for the university.
John has spent decades studying the various time periods throughout the evolution of Earth. His focus is primarily on the time period after the K-Pg extinction event (around 65 million years ago) which wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. His work explores the evolution of species on Earth after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
The author’s interest in the Earth’s past started as a child. This curiosity began with the Time Life Nature Library book series he received as a young boy. One book, titled The Land and Wildlife of North America, depicted species during the middle and late Eocene (40 to 50 million years ago), the Oligocene (between 25 and 40 million years ago), the early Miocene (25 to 20 million years ago), and the early Pliocene (8 to 10 million years ago).
Artistic re-creations of the above time periods brought to life visual images of various species of animals and plants and captured the environment in which they lived. This fascinated the author as a young child and would go on to be the foundation of Extinctus.
What types of creatures rose to dominate the food chain after the disappearance of the non-avian dinosaurs and why did most fail? Each time period journeyed to in Extinctus is a snapshot in time, one in which the author attempts to re-create from the fossil record not only the species of the period, but the climate and geographical environments as well.
The interior images in Extinctus are artistic recreations based on the fossil reconstruction of the species.view less