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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - The Untold Story of a Lost World (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - The Untold Story of a Lost World (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Bestseller
'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the
general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times 66 million years
ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr.
Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation
of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing
together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth
for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on
book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics
like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo,
and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top dinosaur expert Brusatte,
tells the real story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet.
Using the fossil clues that have been gathered using state of the
art technology, Brusatte follows these magnificent creatures from
their beginnings in the Early Triassic period, through the Jurassic
period to their final days in the Cretaceous and the legacy that
they left behind. Along the way, Brusatte introduces us to modern
day dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what it's like to be
a paleontologist. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is full of
thrilling accounts of some of his personal discoveries, including
primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even
larger than T. rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs preserved in
lava from China. At a time when Homo sapiens has existed for less
than 200,000 years and we are already talking about planetary
extinction, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a timely reminder
of what humans can learn from the magnificent creatures who ruled
the earth before us.
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