Brusatte follows these magnificent creatures from the Early Triassic period at the start of their evolution, roughly 250 million years ago, through the Jurassic period to the end of the Cretaceous period (66 million years ago), when a giant meteor struck the earth and all non-bird species went extinct.īrusatte traces their evolution from small shadow dwellers – themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period – into the long-necked, armoured carnivores we are familiar with today. In this ambitious and engrossing narrative history that spans nearly 200 million years, Stephen Brusatte, a young American palaeontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field – discovering ten new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies – tells the complete story of the life and death of the dinosaurs. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy, from one of the most accomplished young palaeontologists in the world today.
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