John Reese

John M Reese studied Native American studies, ancient history and archaeology while attending Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. He went on to become an archaeological field supervisor for the university. His focus is on the 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 this event. The author's interest in the Earth's past started as a child with the Time Life Nature Library book series he received as a young boy. One of these books 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 from these periods brought to life visual images of the various species of animals and captured the environment in which they lived. Each time journeyed to in Extinctus is a snapshot in time, one in which the author re-creates from the fossil record the species, the climate and the geographical environments that existed during those times. The interior color images in Extinctus are artistic recreations based on the fossil reconstruction of the species.