03224cam a2200361 i 4500 605057202 TxAuBib 20220101120000.0 180425s2018||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2018019696 9781432855925 1432855921 (OCoLC)1035797602 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF GK8 BKL NDS TxAuBib rda Brusatte, Stephen, author. The rise and fall of the dinosaurs [text (large print)] : a new history of a lost world / Steve Brusatte. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. ©2018. 546 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction Originally published in 2018 by arrangement with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-532). Timeline of the Age of the Dinosaurs -- Dinosaur family tree -- World maps of the prehistoric Earth -- Prologue: The Golden Age of Discovery -- The dawn of the dinosaurs -- Dinosaurs rise up -- Dinosaurs become dominant -- Dinosaurs and drifting continents -- The tyrant dinosaurs -- The King of the Dinosaurs -- Dinosaurs at the top of their game -- Dinosaurs take flight -- Dinosaurs die out -- Epilogue: After the dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earths most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planets great mysteries. Paleontologist Steve Brusatte draws 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. 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. He -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. Brusatte also offers accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made on globe-trotting expeditions, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China. 20220101. Dinosaurs. Large type books. . Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.