The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World

يحكي قصة الديناصورات من البداية بأسلوب شائق جداً ويشد القارئ، الكتاب بالانجليزية.

Steve Brusatte, a Professor of Paleontology at Edinburgh University, is a brilliant writer who brings to life the story of the dinosaurs from circa 300 to 60 million years ago. The history of the dinosaurs is explained relative to the changing land mass of the planet and their discovery up into the present where so many new finds are being made. Each era is conjured with visual imagery of the dinosaurs in their setting. An active field worker, the narrative is full of anecdotes and firsthand experience of paleontologists in the field and in the laboratory. It is an analytical, absorbing and exciting read.

I felt like a 10 year old who knows all the dinosaur names. I had NO idea they and their predecessors were so interesting. I was disappointed that the book had an end - I could have kept reading and reading. He is a great author who keeps your interest as he is talking to you - the reader and makes you understand that he is like us - just plain curious.

(Slight Rev03) Nowadays dinosaurs' fossils are investment for the rich (also Leonardo DiCaprio) and some paleontologists are a celebrity. Our image on T-Rex have changed from a reptile-looking to sporadic birdy-feather-skin appearance also the rout cause eradicating the most of species has been defined as due to the collision of a meteorite. These two definitions are not what I knew in my childhood or when watched the first version of "Jurassic Park" in 1993. Darwinism has worked on dinosaurs making a genetic link between birds not reptiles and this scientific discovery was done by contemporary technologies including statistics.

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Muy interesante el libro. Es muy bueno a mi parecer. Te narra la historia desde que aparecieron los primeros animales en la Tierra hasta su evolución en los dinosaurios que conocemos. Expone y explica teorías y hechos del por qué de las cosas. Además de que mezcla la historia con anécdotas suyas y personajes. Hay algunos capítulos, o párrafos en específico que tiende a repetir cosas pero todo con el fin de hacer entendible la lectura!