Barnes & NobleThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs- A New History of Their Lost World by Steve Brusatte

THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY, hails Scientific American- A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing. " -Washington PostA New York Times Bestseller. Goodreads Choice Awards Winner. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous. " -NatureThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. 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.