![]() But don't expect a dry, scientific book, Brusatte has created a page-turning history spanning 200 million years going through the evolution of dinosaurs from small, inauspicious creatures, to their dominance of the earth, to their mass extinction when a massive asteroid hit the earth in modern-day Mexico. I give this book the highest praise reading it makes me want to learn more.Brusatte, an American paleontologist, is one of the foremost researchers in the field and has created this new history of the dinosaurs through extensive research, collaboration with paleontologists around the world, and cutting-edge technology. There is a long list of sources to further encourage any interest in dinosaurs. Steve Brusatte The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World Paperback by Steve Brusatte (Author) 3,229 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 62.61 2 Used from 40.46 7 New from 47.90 Paperback 24. Written with the enthusiasm of a child finding a fossil that turns out to be exceedingly old, and the education, prose, insight, and experience of a scholar who has searched for fossils in virtually every continent, the book moves very quickly. Tyrannosaurus Rex gets two full chapters pretty much to himself, but his cousins and descendants, even to our own day, are given their time and in the sun as well. This is a very recent book, much of the old wisdom has been thrown out, and new tools, methods, and fossils give a greater picture of how dinosaurs became ascendant. Their stories are interwoven with the deciphering of evolutionary pressures and adaptations of the animals leading up to the dinosaurs. His childhood heroes are the scientists and fossil collectors who opened the unfathomable millions of years of history to us through the fossil record. This life-long love leaps from every page of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and makes for incredibly interesting reading. Most children fall in love with dinosaurs sometime in their youth.
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