the rise and fall of the dinosaurs steve brusatte dymocks

In 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 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.

Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. '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

'A masterpiece of science writing.' - Washington PostĪ New York Times Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards Winner - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News 'THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY,' hails Scientific American A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.

The rise and fall of the dinosaurs steve brusatte dymocks