书名：The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World 恐龙兴亡史

作者：Steve Brusatte
出版社名称：William Morrow
出版时间：2018
语种：英语
ISBN：9780062844668
商品尺寸：15.2 x 2.6 x 22.9 cm
包装：平装
页数：416（以实物为准）

相信大多数人对于恐龙的认识来自于好莱坞的热门电影《侏罗纪世界》，或者来自偶尔出现攻击东京的哥斯拉，但是这些电影中对于恐龙的描述都是正确的吗？你知道曾经有种恐龙只有人类一般的大小，还有一种体型大过暴龙的凶猛食肉恐龙吗？

本书作者史蒂夫·布鲁赛特是知名的恐龙研究学者，他透过先进的科技分析与研究发现，拼凑出恐龙的完整故事。

除了揭开恐龙的秘密，布鲁赛特还特别分享身为一个古生物学家的想法。对于喜欢恐龙和古生物的读者来说，这都是一本不容错过的历史科普书。

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 world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages.

Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers--themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period--into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs' peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth's history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a "sixth extinction."

Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research--which he calls "a new golden age of discovery"--and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.

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