The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs : A New History of a Lost World

Paperback | 416 pages   The definitive book on dinosaurs for years to come: a sweeping and revelatory new history from one of our finest young scientists. “The ultimate dinosaur biography…there is much to their story that has been left untold until now.”— Scientific American The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. In this captivating narrative, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking fieldwork—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, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as smal