Yes, today’s dinosaurs are a biological class twice as numerous as our own, to wit 10,000 species of birds vs. Brusatte’s account of that cataclysm alone is worth the list price.) It took another global catastrophe to destroy them - this time the huge Yucatan meteorite - and even then some survived. Earth was theirs and the fullness thereof. rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs preserved in lava from China.Dinosaurs came to dominate the planet as fully as we do now, albeit they were not just one self-serving species but an entire menagerie, animals of many shapes and all sizes, up to the biggest ever. 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. 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.Īlong the way, Brusatte introduces us to modern day dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what it’s like to be a paleontologist. 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. 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.
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.
66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth.
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