the rise and fall of the dinosaurs: the untold story of a lost world by steve brusatte

Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. Today they still remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. At a time when Homo sapiens has existed for less than 200,000 years and we are already talking about planetary extinction, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a timely reminder of what humans can learn from the magnificent creatures who ruled the earth before us.Ī SWEEPING AND REVELATORY NEW HISTORY OF THE AGE OF DINOSAURS, FROM ONE OF OUR FINEST YOUNG SCIENTISTS rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs preserved in lava from China.

He offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable discoveries he has made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even larger than T. Along the way, Brusatte introduces us to the cast of new dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what it’s like to be a paleontologist whose job it is to hunt for dinosaurs. In this hugely ambitious and engrossing story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet, using the fossil clues that have been gathered using state of the art technology, Steve Brusatte, one of the world’s leading paleontologists, follows these magnificent creatures from the Early Triassic period at the start of their evolution, through the Jurassic period to their final days in the Cretaceous' and the legacy that they left behind. Today a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs created a hugely successful empire that lasted for around 150 million years.

66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth.

The rise and fall of the dinosaurs: the untold story of a lost world by steve brusatte