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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Nature & Science

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Nature & Science

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Steve Brusatte

Over the course of 200 million years, dinosaurs have evolved and dominated the Earth by utilizing every bit of their changing environment. Whether it is movies featuring the terrifying T. Rex, or the actual dinosaurs we see every day -today's birds-, dinosaurs have left a lasting reputation and legacy.

natural-history

animals

dinosaurs

palaeontology

24 min

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Distinguished paleontologist Steve Brusatte takes us on a quest across time and space while describing the evolution of the various dinosaur species and their inhabited environments in The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. Using his extensive knowledge of geological evidence and fossils, he vividly explains dinosaurs' fascinating stories.

Buchzusammenfassung

Stephen Louis Brusatte is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist specializing in the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs. He has appeared in many documentaries about dinosaurs.

"Bats are just a weird type of mammal that evolved wings and developed the ability to fly. Birds are just a weird group of dinosaurs that did the same thing."

"Classification is a human exercise. Nature doesn't put labels on things."

"Today we regard Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection as one of fundamental rules underpinning the world as we know it."

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Life existed before dinosaurs, and their dominance started after a catastrophe.

Dinosaurs didn't become dominant right away, but they soon adapted to ecological conditions and gained dominance.

The dinosaurs made it through another event of mass extinction and evolved into the largest animals that have ever existed.

Mercenary fossil hunters and geological processes have helped us learn a lot about the Jurassic era.

The T. Rex is well-deservedly famous and terrifying, yet, the rest of the large tyrannosaur family were equally spectacular.

Fossil records provided more information about T. Rex than many living animals.

There was more to successful dinosaur evolution than T. Rex ruling North America.

Birds are dinosaurs; they did not merely evolve from them, and their most distinctive features date back to the Jurassic period.

Some paleontologists contend that dinosaurs were dying out anyway when a catastrophic event from space wiped them out.

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