Staring at a skeleton and letting your imagination wander is all well and good, but it takes a scientist AND a writer like Brusatte to bring that world to life in startling detail. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS A New History of a Lost World By Steve Brusatte Illustrated. However, mammals are his first love, and this delightful account will convert many readers. ![]() Dinosaurs fascinate everyone, and Brusatte, professor of paleontology and adviser to the Jurassic World film franchise, has named more than 15 new species. If you know a teenager interested in science, this book is a great gift idea - it illustrates how dedicated students can become scientists that make important contributions to their. Another outstanding work of paleontology from the author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs. In a stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field, 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. Not only is this the best, most engrossing book about dinosaurs I’ve ever read, but it’s a book that manages to make you truly believe and understand what life was like for these creatures. An outstanding book that chronicles both the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, and the career of paleontologist Steve Brusatte, in compelling and accessible writing. Along the way, he catalogs different dig sites that revealed crucial information for the dinosaur timeline, as well as anecdotes from both history and his own experiences parsing the complex genealogy of various dinosaur species. Steve Brusatte The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World Paperback Illustrated, Apby Steve Brusatte (Author) 4.6 4,874 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 4 million more available with Kindle Unlimited 11.99 to buy Audiobook 0. ![]() Would it blow your mind to discover that the timespan separating us from the tyrannosaurus rex is smaller than the timespan separating the T-rex from the stegosaurus? That is just one example of the incredible breadth of history covered by The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a phenomenal tome chronicling the ebbs and flows of various prehistoric eras and the lives of the dinosaurs and other amazing creatures that inhabited the Earth at the time.īrusatte’s brain-meltingly detailed timeline of dinosaur history takes us through different eras - exploring the conditions for life, what we know of the food chain and the predator-prey hierarchies of each period, and more - bringing to life the staggeringly alien worlds that the Earth has been in the past. 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 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.
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