![]() 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. "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." - Nature A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News."A masterpiece of science writing." - Washington PostĪ New York Times Bestseller I give this book the highest praise reading it makes me want to learn more."THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. There is a long list of sources to further encourage any interest in dinosaurs. 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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