1/28/2024 0 Comments The rise and fall of the dinosaurs: the untold story of a lost world: steve brusatte«Kind in tone and generous in description. «This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous.» Superbly illustrated with photos and art, this is popular-science writing at its best.» Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World It's the most epic chapter of earth history, and here it's told vividly by one of the world's top paleontologists.» In his thrilling account of the revolutions and innovations that brought dinosaurs to rule the world for a near eternity, Brusatte captures both the majesty of the creatures he studies, as well as the breathtaking evolutionary ride that transformed these once scrawny also-rans into the myth-making tyrants of legend. «As a scientist on the front lines of discovery, Brusatte delivers a cutting-edge account of Earth's most awe-inspiring age, and does so with great skill, humor and wonder. It is hard to read Brusatte and not love lost worlds.» Written by one of our young leaders of the field, he brings new discoveries, a taste for a good yarn, and his infectious enthusiasm to some of the epic tales of paleontology. «Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a triumph. Steve Backshall, Naturalist and BBC TV Presenter It is a personal quest full of enthusiasm and joy, getting beneath the dust to reveal the scales and the feathers of dinosaurs.» « The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a work of solid modern science, updating the fallacies and fancies of antiquated paleontology, revealing the quantum leaps in understanding of this modern science. «With his new book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs esteemed palaeontologist and author Steve Brusatte shows that the fun, fascinating and fact-filled story of the dinosaurs is still very much alive after 66 million years.
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