"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY " hails Scientific American : A thrilling new history of the
age of dinosaurs from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing."
- Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller ¿ Goodreads Choice Awards Winner ¿ A BEST BOOK OF
THE YEAR: Smithsonian Science Friday The Times (London) Popular Mechanics Science News
"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 The
dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today
they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals
their extraordinary 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative
of natural history (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs)
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 scientific studies and
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. Captivating and revelatory The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a
book for the ages. Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as
small shadow dwellers-themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic
eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period-into the dominant array of species every
wide-eyed child memorizes today T. rex Triceratops Brontosaurus and more. This gifted
scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs' peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous when
thousands of species thrived and winged and feathered dinosaurs the prehistoric ancestors of
modern birds emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period when a giant
asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out
in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth's history one full of lessons for today as
we confront a "sixth extinction." Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his
globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research-which he
calls "a new golden age of discovery"-and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable
findings he and his colleagues have made including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs
monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from
China. An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs' epic saga The Rise and
Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come. Includes
75 images world maps of the prehistoric earth and a dinosaur family tree. This definitive
account explores the complete surprising story of the dinosaurs: The Age of Dinosaurs: Follow
the dinosaurs across 200 million years from their Triassic dawn and Jurassic dominance to
their abrupt demise in the Cretaceous. Mass Extinction Events: Uncover the science behind the
volcanic eruptions that gave dinosaurs their start and the giant asteroid that caused their
cataclysmic extinction. The Living Legacy: Explore the startling connection between prehistoric
ancestors and modern birds revealing how the dinosaur story continues today.
