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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs The Untold Story of a Lost World Author:Steve Brusatte The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. — In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy ori... more »ginal illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field -- naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork -- masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research -- which he calls “a new golden age of discovery” -- and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.
An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.« less