![]() ![]() Granted, this North American trove began to form at a time when all the present continents were more or less together in the “supercontinent” of Gondwana even so, Brusatte sorts out old mysteries of distribution such as why South America is so comparatively light in dinosaur fossil evidence. ![]() Americans may be delighted to learn that North America is “the single richest dinosaur ecosystem known to scientists during the entire Age of Dinosaurs anywhere in the world,” essential in understanding how the dinosaurs fit into their environments and existed alongside each other and other creatures. of Edinburgh) notes, researchers are finding an average of a new dinosaur species every week, vastly expanding not just our inventory, but also our understanding of the evolutionary history of the dinosaurs. We are living in a golden age of paleontology, especially as it relates to the proto-reptilian and proto-avian critters of a few hundred million years past. rex and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.Īn 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.A nimble introduction to the world of dinosaurs, those supposed “dead ends in the history of life.” The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth's history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a "sixth extinction."īrusatte 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. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs' peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages.īrusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers-themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period-into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original 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. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY." - Scientific American A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.
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