A native of Ottawa, Illinois, he now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is his first full-length book for adults. He has written several books for children and the leading textbook Dinosaur Paleobiology. He appears frequently on television and his work is covered often by the popular press. He has a Bachelor's from the University of Chicago, a Master's from the University of Bristol, and a PhD from Columbia University. However, mammals are his first love, and this delightful account will convert many readers. Dinosaurs fascinate everyone, and Brusatte, professor of paleontology and adviser to the Jurassic World film franchise, has named more than 15 new species. He has traveled the world digging up dinosaurs, named over 15 new species (including the tyrannosaur 'Pinocchio rex'), and published ground-breaking studies on the origin and extinction of dinosaurs. Another outstanding work of paleontology from the author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs. Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and a specialist on the evolution of dinosaurs. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is his first full-length book for adu Author writes under the penname Steve Brusatte as well. 4/5: 100 Days of Summer Reading 2023 Prompt: Book with an animal on the cover Virtual 12 sided dice roll: 3 Ive previously read Brusattes book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. He has traveled the world digging up dinosaurs, named over 15 new species (including the tyrannosaur 'Pinocchio rex'), and published ground-breaking studies on the origin and extinction of dinosaurs. And yet between them, the combatants presided over the discovery of hundreds of species, including what Brusatte calls “ones that roll off the tongue of every schoolchild: Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Diplodocus, Stegosaurus.Author writes under the penname Steve Brusatte as well. In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top dinosaur expert Brusatte, tells the real story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet. The Bone Wars, as the conflict was called, reached their nadir when Marsh had a fossil field dynamited to keep Cope from exploring it to gain an edge, in other words, Marsh destroyed knowledge. Culp and Marsh didn’t want merely to name dinosaurs they also wanted to describe and classify them in scientific journals, each man showing off his erudition, buttressing his claim to be the discipline’s top dog. “Once chummy,” Brusatte writes, they “had let ego and pride metastasize into a full-on feud, which was so radioactive that they would do anything to one-up each other in an insane battle to see who could name the most new dinosaurs.” Here is one of the few places in the book where I wish the author had dug a little deeper. The only scientists Brusatte speaks ill of are long dead: the batty 19th-century rivals Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.
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