The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World Audiobook (Free)

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66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the facial skin of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, among the leading researchers of a new era of dinosaur hunters, armed with leading edge technology, is normally piecing together the complete story of the way the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years.

The world of the about The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for many years – from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But imagine if we got it incorrect? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, best dinosaur professional Brusatte, tells the real story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet. Using the fossil signs which have been gathered using state from the art technology, Brusatte comes after these magnificent animals from their beginnings in the first Triassic period, through the Jurassic period with their last days in the Cretaceous as well as the legacy that they left behind.

On the way, Brusatte introduces us to present day dinosaur hunters and provides an insight into what it’s like to be a paleontologist. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is usually full of fascinating accounts of a few of his personal discoveries, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs conserved in lava from China.

At a time when Homo sapiens has existed for under 200,000 years and we already are discussing planetary extinction, The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs is a timely reminder of what humans can learn from the magnificent creatures who ruled the earth before us.