66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. It's getting 5 stars, obviously.A sweeping and groundbreaking history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. I could go on and on about how much I loved it, but I’ll spare you. ![]() It was truly fascinating, engrossing, chocked full of information, but never dry or dull. ![]() My absolute favorite part came at the end when he described, in minute-by-minute detail, what occurred during that fateful apocalyptic asteroid crash. He didn’t blandly state facts, but rather dynamically narrated a detailed portrait of what the dinos’ world looked like, almost like a nature documentary narration. What I enjoyed most was Brusatte’s descriptions of the dinosaurs and their world. He dramatically recounts the 200-million-year history of the origins of the dinosaurs’ reign– they themselves the beneficiaries of another mass extinction event at the end of the Triassic period– to their astonishing flourishing and millions of years long reign until their demise from their own mass extinction event. Steve Brusatte is one of the leading new voices in paleontology, having named fifteen new dinosaur species so far in his short career. ![]() This was my latest book on the topic and definitely one of my favorites. The Land Before Time loving kids grow up to become paleontology obsessed adults, and that's a fact.Įvolution, fossils, natural history, archaeology, paleontology–I can't get enough of any of it. *Read this review (and others!) on my blog.
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