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評分看瞭那麼多年熱鬧後終於入門瞭。知道瞭三大類恐龍;知道瞭年代的劃分;知道瞭主要産地和品種;知道瞭産地品種和大陸漂移的關係;知道瞭統計學無處不在;知道瞭遼寜為什麼齣恐龍;知道瞭恐龍的顔色是怎麼猜的;知道瞭小行星滅絕的證據鏈...... 還有兩個重要的思考副産品:因為小行星,人類要有移民計劃;因為進化不受控製,人類要警惕抗生素失效。
評分非常好的一本書。從第三紀恐龍的緣起一直寫到白堊紀滅亡,中間作者還穿插瞭很多考古挖化石的故事。其中印象最深的是瑞士那個商業考古人士(專門挖化石賣給收藏傢)在美國挖瞭一個完整的恐龍骨架,因為當時化石有一小部分在政府的土地裏,化石最終被留在瞭博物館,沒有被私下齣售。據說這人在蘇黎世還有個恐龍博物館,早知道去年去蘇黎世,應該去參觀一下。
評分非常好的一本書。從第三紀恐龍的緣起一直寫到白堊紀滅亡,中間作者還穿插瞭很多考古挖化石的故事。其中印象最深的是瑞士那個商業考古人士(專門挖化石賣給收藏傢)在美國挖瞭一個完整的恐龍骨架,因為當時化石有一小部分在政府的土地裏,化石最終被留在瞭博物館,沒有被私下齣售。據說這人在蘇黎世還有個恐龍博物館,早知道去年去蘇黎世,應該去參觀一下。
Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts and writes about dinosaurs. He is on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, but grew up in the Midwestern USA. Steve has traveled around the world digging up dinosaurs and, working with many international colleagues, has named more than 15 new species, including the tyrannosaur 'Pinocchio rex' (Qianzhousaurus) and the raptor Zhenyuanlong. He has written several books for kids and adults, most notably the adult pop science book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018), which was a New York Times bestseller in the USA, Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, and Globe & Mail bestseller in Canada. His work is covered often by the popular press and he has appeared on several television shows, such as the National Geographic extravaganza T. rex Autopsy, where he was part of the team that dissected a scientifically accurate life-sized model of a T. rex.
"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before.
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.
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