#stephen brusatte

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books i’ve read in 2019 » The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of the Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

“Dinosaurs had been around for over 150 million years when their time of reckoning came. They had endured hardships, evolved superpowers like fast metabolisms and enormous size, and vanquished their rivals so that they ruled an entire planet… Then, literally, in a split second, it ended.”

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🦖Book Review🦕

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Were any of you that kid who was totally into learning the names of every single dinosaur in kindergarten? Which dinosaur was your favorite one? Did you have every line from the movie Land Before Time memorized? If so then “adult” you will like The Rise And Fall Of The Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte🦕

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Synopsis from the publisher: In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—discovering ten 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.”

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This was a fun fast paced history of not only dinosaurs, but also life on earth and our ever changing planet. Brusatte explains things in witty and easy to understand terms which often left me going “huh how cool!” and “I never knew that!” So if you love dinosaurs or just really well written nonfiction, then I highly recommend this one!