The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New Historical past of a Misplaced World (eBook) by Steve Brusatte $2.99
Author Steve Brusatte
Publisher William Morrow
Publication date April 24, 2018
Print size 401 pages
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A sweeping and groundbreaking historical past of the age of dinosaurs, from one in all our most interesting younger scientists
The dinosaurs. 66 million years in the past, the Earth’s most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story stays one in all our planet’s nice mysteries.
In this beautiful narrative spanning greater than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a younger American paleontologist who has emerged as one of many foremost stars of the sphere—discovering ten new species and main groundbreaking scientific research and fieldwork—masterfully tells the entire, stunning, and new historical past of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically deliver to life their misplaced world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing range, cataclysmic extinction, and startling dwelling legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a e-book for the ages.
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious begin as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction brought on by volcanic eruptions originally of the Triassic interval—into the dominant array of species each wide-eyed youngster memorizes at present, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and extra. This gifted scientist and author re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak in the course of the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when hundreds of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of recent birds, emerged. The story continues to the top of the Cretaceous interval, when a large asteroid or comet struck the planet and almost each dinosaur species (however not all) died out, in essentially the most extraordinary extinction occasion in earth’s historical past, one filled with classes for at present as we confront a “sixth extinction.”
Brusatte additionally remembers compelling tales from his globe-trotting expeditions throughout probably the most thrilling eras in dinosaur analysis—which he calls “a brand new golden age of discovery”—and affords thrilling accounts of among the outstanding findings he and his colleagues have made, together with primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even bigger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.
An electrifying scientific historical past that reveals the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will likely be a definitive and treasured account for many years to return.
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