{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-a-new-history-of-their-lost-world-9780062490438","title":"The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY,\" hails \u003cem\u003eScientific American\u003c\/em\u003e: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A masterpiece of science writing.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003cem\u003eSmithsonian, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eScience Friday, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (London), \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePopular Mechanics, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eScience News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous.\" --\u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe dinosaurs. \u003c\/em\u003eSixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs \u003c\/em\u003ereveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this captivating narrative (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 \u003cem\u003enew \u003c\/em\u003ehistory 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrusatte 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, \u003cem\u003eT. rex\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Triceratops\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrontosaurus\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrusatte 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 \u003cem\u003eT. rex\u003c\/em\u003e; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs' epic saga, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs\u003c\/em\u003e will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncludes 75 images, world maps of the prehistoric earth, and a dinosaur family tree.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrusatte, Steve:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSteve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts and writes about dinosaurs. He is on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, but grew up in the Midwestern USA. Steve has traveled around the world digging up dinosaurs and, working with many international colleagues, has named more than 15 new species, including the tyrannosaur 'Pinocchio rex' (Qianzhousaurus) and the raptor Zhenyuanlong. He has written several books for kids and adults, most notably the adult pop science book \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), which was a\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller in the USA, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller in the UK, and \u003cem\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller in Canada. 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