Table of Contents

Section - i: Prologue: The Golden Age of Discovery Chapter - 1: The Dawn of the Dinosaurs Chapter - 2: Dinosaurs Rise Up Chapter - 3: Dinosaurs Become Dominant Chapter - 4: Dinosaurs and Drifting Continents Chapter - 5: The Tyrant Dinosaurs Chapter - 6: The King of the Dinosaurs Chapter - 7: Dinosaurs at the Top of Their Game Chapter - 8: Dinosaurs Take Flight Chapter - 9: Dinosaurs Die Out Section - ii: Epilogue: After the Dinosaurs Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Section - iv: Notes on Sources Index - v: Index

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Before there were Homo sapiens there were the dinosaurs. A thrilling re-evaluation of the creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million years by one of the world's leading paleontologists.

About the Author

Dr Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has a BS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol (UK), and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York.

Reviews

Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.
*The Sunday Times*

A gripping read in the best traditions of popular science
*The Observer*

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a lovely book. Brusatte has a wonderful knack for conjuring vivid worlds out of a few shards of petrified bone.
*The Times*

A vibrant view of how dinosaurs originated and what happened to our Mesozoic favourites. Brusatte is as adept a scientific storyteller as any reader could ask for.
*The Spectator*

A masterpiece of science writing
*The Washington Post*

An up-to-the-minute account of the long history and remarkable biology of the extraordinary animals that capture the imagination of every child.
*Professor Richard Fortey*

Steve Brusatte is doing some of the most exciting research on dinosaurs today, and he brings that excitement to The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.
*Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution: Making Sense of Life*

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a work of solid modern science, updating the fallacies and fancies of antiquated paleontology, revealing the quantum leaps in understanding of this modern science. But it is more than that. It is a personal quest full of enthusiasm and joy, getting beneath the dust to reveal the scales and the feathers of dinosaurs.
*Steve Backshall, Naturalist and BBC TV Presenter*

Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a triumph. Written by one of our young leaders of the field, he brings new discoveries, a taste for a good yarn, and his infectious enthusiasm to some of the epic tales of paleontology. It is hard to read Brusatte and not love lost worlds.
*Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish*

It's the most epic chapter of earth history, and here it's told vividly by one of the world's top paleontologists.
*Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World*

With his new book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs esteemed palaeontologist and author Steve Brusatte shows that the fun, fascinating and fact-filled story of the dinosaurs is still very much alive after 66 million years. Simply, a must read.
*Ben Garrod, BBC TV presenter*

Fantastic . . . Superbly illustrated with photos and art, this is popular-science writing at its best.
*Nancy Bent*

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*

The ultimate dinosaur biography
*Scientific American*

[Brusatte's] captivating text explores the excitement associated with searching for and discovering new dinosaur species, provides clues to many long-standing questions associated with dinosaurs. . . a mix of memoir, chronicling Brusatte’s personal odyssey from a child smitten by dinosaurs to a member of a vibrant scholarly community, and first-rate science writing for the general public.
*Publishers Weekly*

A must-have for fans of ancient reptiles and their lost world.
*Kirkus Reviews*

He gives an extensive bibliography of semi-popular and scholarly sources, many of them so new that the ink is hardly dry. This is science at first hand, meant for grown-ups.
*The Literary Review*

Kind in tone and generous in description...[this] memoirlike writing is silly and lovable, making for one big adventure.
*The Paris Review*

Full of adventures and humour. Abundant photographs and illustrations bring these stories to life
*Science*

Excellent...a superb combination of good argument and good writing.
*Matt Ridley*

Brusatte skillfully brings dead dino bones to life as he shares - no, gushes about - his personal journey as a young fossil hunter andthe people he’s met along the way… The beauty of this book lies in the details, too, and in the stories of the scientists who dig them up.
*New York Times Book Review*

Brusatte tells the epic tale of the dinosaurs’ rise to dominance and extinction, taking us on a thrilling journey back in time.
*National Geographic*

Rawwrghhh! Millions of years ago dino roars echoed across the earth. This vivid book takes us back. Meet the argentinosaurus, the largest land animal to have lived, and the allosaurus, a nasty predator with horns over its eyes. Steve Brusatte brings dinosaurs alive for a new generation.
*The Times, Saturday Review, The best nonfiction to read on holiday this summer*

Brusatte’s up-to-date survey of the current state of palaeontological knowledge is the best book on dinosaurs written for the general reader since the 1980s.
*The Times, The 100 best books to read this summer*