The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of a Lost World

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<p><b>"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails <i>Scientific American</i>: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. </b></p><p><b>"A masterpiece of science writing." -<i>Washington Post</i></b></p><p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller Goodreads Choice Awards Winner</b><b>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Smithsonian,</i> <i>Science Friday,</i> </b><b><i>The Times</i> (London), </b><b><i>Popular Mechanics,</i> <i>Science News</i></b></p><p>"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." -<i>Nature</i></p><p><i>The dinosaurs. </i>Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now <i>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs </i>reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before.</p><p>In this captivating narrative of natural history (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 <i>new </i>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, <i>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs</i> is a book for the ages.</p><p>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, <i>T. rex</i>,<i> Triceratops</

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780062490438

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

230 x 154 x 29 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA