The homo genus is only about 2.5 million years old, and homo sapiens have been around for a measly 300,000 years. Dinosaurs were around for 150 million years. Not only that, but it's so strange that we regard them as something of a failed species. Unbelievably huge reptiles that roamed the entire planet. I watched Jurassic Park and had a recurring nightmare about a T.Rex trying to attack our house. The Land Before Time was one of my favourite movies. I have an early memory of being at nursery school and always running straight for the plastic dinosaurs at playtime.
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. rex and feathered raptor dinosaurs from China buried in volcanic ash. He offers thrilling accounts of some of the most remarkable discoveries he has made, including primitive, human-size tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even larger than a T.
Using fossil clues that have been with state-of-the-art technology, Steve Brusatte traces these magnificent creatures from the Triassic period at the start of their evolution, through the Jurassic period, to their final catastrophic days in the Cretaceous and the legacy that they left behind.Īlong the way, Brusatte introduces a cast of new dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what being a palaeontologist is really like. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a hugely ambitious and engrossing story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet, written by one of the world's leading palaeontologists. 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. Sixty-six million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth.
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