The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World Audiobook (Free)

A sweeping and revelatory new history of age dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.

‘THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY.’ – Scientific American

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain among our planet’s great mysteries. Right now The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as nothing you’ve seen prior.

In this captivating narrative (enlivened with an increase of than seventy about The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs: A FRESH History of a Lost World original illustrations and photos), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars from the field-naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork-masterfully tells the entire, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge technology to dramatically provide alive their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs is a book for the age range.

Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs using their inauspicious begin as small darkness dwellers-themselves the beneficiaries of the mass extinction due to volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period-into the dominant selection of types every wide-eyed kid memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and even more. This gifted scientist and article writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ maximum during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when a large number of types thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The storyplot continues to the finish from the Cretaceous period, whenever a huge asteroid or comet struck the earth and nearly every dinosaur varieties (but not all) died out, in probably the most amazing extinction event in earth’s background, one full of lessons for today once we confront a “6th extinction.”

Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during probably one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research-which he calls “a fresh golden age of discovery”-and gives thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his co-workers have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores actually bigger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.

An electrifying scientific background that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.