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Brusatte offered the following response. In the above, Brusatte talks about feathered dinos, among other things. Fleur This image of a sauropod print accompanied the above article — from the University of Edinburgh An interesting lecture 33 minutes on how paleontologists research dinosaurian social behavior and what they have found - Social Behaviour in Dinosaurs - with David Hone Hone's delivery has a sing-song rhythm that can be a bit soporific, but the content is fascinating. Of particular interest is the basis for juvenile clustering. He was one of the progenitors of what was called Glam Rock.
Anates Impar - really? You could not do a Google translate? It means Odd Ducks, ok. This flamboyantly feathered Rex image is from Deviant Art — Yeah, I doubt it looked like this too, but a fun image I wanted to share Full disclosure: I only steal from the best. View all 61 comments. Feb 18, Emily rated it liked it Shelves: Another ambivalent three stars for a book that has two strands of highly varying success in my opinion.
The good part of the book is the clear and vivid writing about dinosaurs. I particularly liked learning new things about dinosaur-like creatures that lived among them but happen to fall outside the classification, and reasons why dinosaurs could evolve to be absolutely gigantic those big sauropods or fly. I liked reading about the nomenclature of new and unusual finds it's not all Latin anym Another ambivalent three stars for a book that has two strands of highly varying success in my opinion.
I liked reading about the nomenclature of new and unusual finds it's not all Latin anymore. The section on the immediate aftermath of the asteroid strike is gripping and horrifying. It was beads of glass and chunks of rock, each one scalding hot. Frankly he comes off as more than a little self-satisfied--a sighting of the Jerkus brillianticus , if you will. His mentors and collaborators are uniformly amazing and brilliant and are described in a way that makes nearly all of them sound dull and interchangeable, an endless parade of brilliant bearded dudes drinking beer in exotic locales that are mainly described in terms of their nattering locals and unpleasant weather.
If you think I've used the word "brilliant" a lot in this paragraph, you won't believe this book! Though he names several women paleontologists in these pages, he rarely seems to work with any of them, and notes with apparent enjoyment crass jokes at bars and commentary about their physiques from a speaker at an international conference. The personal recollections strike a disagreeable note that undercuts one of the goals of the book, which is to show how cool it would be to be a paleontologist.
Read this, while holding your nose a little bit, if you're interested in dinosaurs. Review copy received from Edelweiss. View all 14 comments. I loved the parts about dinosaurs. Fun facts, history, evidence and speculation on behavior, recent discoveries, distribution as the continents divided and spread out. It's a compact assessable update on dinosaurs large and small.
Oh, just another coelophysis, no this is something new! I tuned out the sections of the author's personal experience. Based on other GR reviews, that's probably for the best. May 03, Jaya rated it really liked it Shelves: For me that word is enough to at least flip through the pages of a book. Brusatte's work can be easily considered as a layman's guide to dinosaurs. Really enjoyed the almost casual and anecdotal narrative by the author, made me feel less dumb for not knowing anything "scientific" about the species.
Quite remarkable how fast I finished reading this one, considering that I take lot more time reading non-fics. I liked how the autho Dinosaurs! I liked how the author busted a few myths about dinosaurs as have been portrayed in popular culture by stating reasons and explanations carried out through research done in the recent past. Extra points for the numerous illustrations and images of the locations and species that were mentioned.
All this mention of dinos made me reminiscent of a day I spent last year with these species: D That's a T-rex btw: Bottom image is of the Yale Peabody Museum, courtesy Google Overall, read the sections about the dinosaurs and skip the parts about his personal experiences. Every time he mentions a scientist, he turns it into a self-congratulating name drop. I wish the author had focused on the dinosaurs because that was the most interesting part and what I picked the book up to learn. View all 5 comments.
This book not only provides an overview of the current state of dinosaur research but also a history of paleontology and the characters who have worked in the field. It is a rapidly expanding field. Right now is the golden age of dinosaur research. Somebody, somewhere around the world, is finding a new species of dinosaur now, on average, once a week. Prior to listening to this book, my knowledge of dinosaurs was based primarily on a smattering of news reports.
Thus I previously had the impression that the bird-dinosaur relationship was a debatable hypothesis. But evidence now available seems quite convincing. The Liaoning fossils sealed the deal by verifying how many features are shared uniquely by birds and other theropods , not just feathers but also wishbones, three fingered hands that can fold against the body, and hundreds of other aspects of the skeleton.
There are no other groups of animals, living or extinct, that share these things with birds or theropods. This must mean that birds came from theropods. Any other conclusion requires a whole lot of special pleading. Among the unique features shared by birds and dinosaurs is a respiratory system that provides highly efficient and light weight oxygen transfer system.
No other species alive today has a respiratory system like this. To me this is the definitive proof of the relationship. Its amazing what can be deduced about dinosaurs by modern science. For example, dinosaurs had color. Through the use of melanosomes it has been inferred that feathered dinosaurs had a variety of colors which leads to the possibility that the feathers were developed for display purposes—peacock like—and subsequently turned into flying equipment through the evolutionary process.
The author Brusatte leads the reader through the various stages of dinosaur evolution, beginning with the Triassic Period when their presence was not dominate. However a mass extinction caused by large and continuing volcanic eruptions cleared the way for dinosaurs to dominate during the following Jurassic Period. Brusatte devotes a whole chapter to the subject of T.
Brusatte speculates that this may indicate that they hunted in packs because the T. Rex adolescents were lean and capable of running fast. The youth in the pack could catch the prey and the giant adults could move in for the kill. Measurements of the brain cavity show that, "Rex was roughly as smart as a chimp and more intelligent than dogs and cats. This included an enhanced sense of smell. It also had an enhanced ability to sense low frequency sounds that would allow tyrannosaurs to track prey movements from long distances.
The book provides an imagined description of what it would have been like to be alive on earth 66 million years ago at the time of the crash of the mighty meteor that ended the Jurassic Period killing off the dinosaurs except for birds.
It appears that species that burrowed, had the freedom to fly, and could scavenge on dead organic material for several years after the meteor were the only ones that survived. No mammals at the time were larger than a modern badger. From this description I am convinced that if a similar sized meteor struck the earth now that it's highly questionable whether any humans could survive. View all 4 comments. How insane is it to think that millions ago, those creates roamed the same lands we inhabit today? It is an idea that has fascinated me as a kid watching Disney's Dinosaur and of course Jurassic Park as much as it does today as an adult, getting excited about books by paleontologists like Steve Brusatte.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is an absolute joy to read and now possibly my favorite book on the subject. Brusatte specialized in the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs I love dinosaurs. Brusatte specialized in the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs and uses this book to retell the story of those ancient creatures: It is an approachable read and Brusatte is able to form a narrative that is both engaging and informative.
This book particularly focusses on their evolutionary development , which I appreciated. We all know about evolution and how it operates, but I felt like reading this gave me a completely new understanding of how crucial and all-encompassing evolution is to all life on Earth.
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Even a tyrannosaurus rex didn't just pop up one day and decided to take the golden place at the top of the food chain, but could only become who he was after thousands of years' worth of development. Brusatte loosens the narrative up by adding personal stories , which are delightful if you are interested in paleontology as an academic field. He talks about various encounters with peers and his own heroes, their works and discoveries and thereby manages to evoke a vivid picture of what the world of paleontologists is like - including which questions of nature are yet to be answered.
He also comes clean with some misconceptions we have about dinosaurs yes, birds are dinosaurs, so technically they are not extinct and no , that iconic scene from Jurassic Park in which a T.
Right off, his description of the Great Dying kept me glued to the pages as the volcanoes spewed forth lava mud and carbon dioxide. There is some name dropping and a bit of "patting one self on the back" at one's brilliancy but then the top Scientists of all disciplines are brilliant, so perhaps that's an understood fact. In films and documentaries, it usually plays the gentle, sympathetic plant-eater, the perfect dramatic foil to the Tyrant King. Was this article helpful? Scenes like this helped me connect with the author and understand and admire the depth of his passion and enthusiasm for dinosaurs. Cause I know most people don't understand it.
This book is exciting. It made me realize how it is not just the stories we make up that are exciting. It is our own, real and breathing world that is. Oct 31, Petra rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a fun look at the development and world of the dinosaurs.
Stephen Brusatte stated the interesting recent finds regarding dinosaurs and speculated, from the evidence, what their world could have been like. The section of what happened when the asteroid hit Earth was frightening. There is some name dropping and a bit of "patting one self on the back" at one's brilliancy but then the top Scientists of all disciplines are brilliant, so perhaps that's an understood fact. No This is a fun look at the development and world of the dinosaurs. Not annoying but noticeable throughout the book. All in all, I recommend this book if interested in the world that was at the time of dinosaurs.
Lots of interesting information, told in an enjoyable, understandable way. Jul 12, Bfisher rated it did not like it. The actual pop science part of this book is OK - a reasonably readable account of recent developments and discoveries in the sciences bearing of the history of the dinosaurs. If it had been edited to that level, it could have been a solid 3 stars. Unfortunately, there is a peculiar injection of personalities into this book, and unpleasant personalities at that - imagine a cross of Animal House with Raiders of the Lost Arc.
I finished reading this book because of my interest in the science, but I The actual pop science part of this book is OK - a reasonably readable account of recent developments and discoveries in the sciences bearing of the history of the dinosaurs. I finished reading this book because of my interest in the science, but I had to grit my teeth frequently.
Mar 09, Melissa Stewart rated it it was amazing. The narrative writing style is so friendly and accessible that readers can sit back and enjoy the ride as Brusatte takes us on a captivating chronological tour of the Mesozoic—the Age of Reptiles—beginning about million years ago and ending 66 million years ago with the famous asteroid or comet impact that wiped out all the dinosaurs except birds.
I enjoyed learning about the dinosauromorphs—dinosaur-like reptiles that lived at the same time as early dinosaurs but are not considered part of the group. At one time, scientists used a half dozen anatomical traits to differentiate the two groups, but recent fossil finds suggest that the line between the two groups is extremely blurry. I was also interested in the discussion of carcharodontosaurs—ferocious carnivorous dinosaurs that had their heyday before tyrannosaurs rose to power. Not surprisingly, my favorite chapter focused on the mighty T.
It began with a dramatic narrative hunting scene and then highlighted how the work of scientists—men and women—from around the world has contributed to our understanding the mighty beast. The descriptions of recent cutting-edge techniques were especially vibrant and fascinating. The chapter about how the world changed following the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs except birds really puts the reader in the middle of the action.
The carefully crafted you-are-there scene setting gave me a strong sense of what Earth was like and how horrible it would have been to experience it. I also enjoyed reading what we know about the transition from dinosaurs to modern day birds. Throughout the text, Brusatte includes engaging personal anecdotes that give readers a flavor of what life as a paleontologist is like. Traditionally, paleontology has been a white, male world, and this book accurately represents that.
But I was glad to see that Brusatte balances those sections by repeatedly drawing attention to the important work of female colleagues as well as the contributions of a diverse array of scientists from around the world. Amazingly, Alvarez took the call! Many years later, when Brusatte met his idol, Alvarez remembered speaking with him.
Scenes like this helped me connect with the author and understand and admire the depth of his passion and enthusiasm for dinosaurs. View all 7 comments. Nov 23, Lata rated it really liked it Shelves: I caught the dino bug when I was probably seven years old, and have never stopped being utterly entranced by these amazing creatures. Much of what I learned as a child about the big lizards has since been refuted by new fossils, better analysis, and new research. Stephen Brusatte caught the dino bug when he was young and became a vertebrate paleontologist.
His passion comes through loud and clear in this book, as he takes his readers from ancient history to the end of most dinosaurs on this plan I caught the dino bug when I was probably seven years old, and have never stopped being utterly entranced by these amazing creatures. His passion comes through loud and clear in this book, as he takes his readers from ancient history to the end of most dinosaurs on this planet, starting with the biggest mass extinction on this planet at the end of the Permian age; this die-off made way for some unusual reptiles with a different body plan than many of their peers that proved to be amazingly successful for these reptiles and their countless descendants for millennia afterwards through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.
Though I was already familiar with much that Brusatte covered, his writing style made the material approachable and easy to understand. I particularly liked Brusatte's chapters on the Permian-Triassic transition, tyrannosaurs, birds, and the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous especially. I am a fan of theropods, and Brusatte is clearly a huge fan of the tyrannosaurids. He tended to wax a little melodramatic about these carnivorous dinosaurs, but then it's a little hard not to be in awe of such terrifying beings.
Especially the huge carnivorous members of this group. This book was a good refresher on many points about dinosaurs, and the author's writing style and obvious enthusiasm for the subject made this an enjoyable read.
Feb 18, GoldGato rated it really liked it Shelves: If things had unfolded a little differently back then, who knows what the modern world would be like? It's like wondering what might have happened if the archduke was never shot. The whole these-were-the-coolest-beings-that-ever-roamed-the-earth moniker has always made me a dino fan.
The amazing variations of these huge oddballs have always been intriguing and this book does its best to piece everything together. Which is a very good thing, because there have been so many new Those darn dinosaurs. Which is a very good thing, because there have been so many new discoveries and new theories since I was a child that I lost track of which was the coolest dino welcome back, Brontosaurus.
Steve Brusatte is one of the world's eminent paleontologists whose other books, especially Field Guide to Dinosaurs , have made me a fan of his writing and his obvious enthusiasm for his work. Here, he charts the very beginnings of the dinosaur, even before they evolved. Somehow, some little things survived and that eventually led the way for the bigger things to arrive later on.
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Right off, his description of the Great Dying kept me glued to the pages as the volcanoes spewed forth lava mud and carbon dioxide. How anything managed to live through all of that is simply amazing. As the dinosaurs grew, the earth was also changing, with the continents moving toward their current locations and the environment becoming a bit nicer.
Well, nicer like walking outside at noon during an Alabama summer. The dinosaurs became larger and larger and ruled the world until the day that nasty asteroid slammed into Earth. Then, Brusatte relates what it must have felt like to wake up that day as a dino, thinking you were just going about your business as usual. Any dinosaur too close to the impact was vaporised while the ones further away endured boiling hot hail, mammoth earthquakes, renewed lava flows, loss of sun, loss of trees, and ergo, loss of life.
The dinosaurs didn't all die at once, he states, but probably over a few hundred or few thousand years. Given the fact that they had been around for millions of years, the dinosaur extinction was relatively quick. The book doesn't just end with the catastrophic impact but instead continues with the rise of the birds, our current dinosaurs. That's because this book is as much a tribute to the men and women who found those dragon bones as it is to the dinosaur. I deducted a star for the continuous focus on the author we get it, Steve, you like dinosaurs and you go on lots of expeditions.
So pretty good book, but it forced me to check out another library book The Great Dinosaur Discoveries so I could see the actual illustrations of what these big brutes would have looked like. Off to a good start. I prefer to read pop-science books written by scientists, and Brusatte is a young, working vertebrate paleontologist at the Univ. Like all of us, he caught the dino bug when he was a kid. Unlike most, he made a career of it, and it's been an interesting one.
Dino books are generally written by seniors, so it's fun to see one of the "young guns" take up the pen or computer. Brusatte is an adequate writer, which is fine, since he's got some great stories to tel Off to a good start. Brusatte is an adequate writer, which is fine, since he's got some great stories to tell. And it's a great time for the field -- he says that lately, there's a new dino species described, on average, every week! The good quality continues, and I enjoyed the book, although I got dino-overload at times.
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He's a decent writer, but the prose gets purple, as in the Great Asteroid that probably killed off the dinosaurs except for the birds! His science is up-to-date, and I recommend the book, especially for dinosaur fans. Here's a nice sample, that is I think pretty much a chapter in the book: Oct 14, Lindsay rated it really liked it Shelves: As with most people I went through a dinosaur phase as a kid where I could list off a list of Latin and Greek scientific names of extinct reptiles that was around ten times longer than the list of politicians I'd ever heard of. I got to go through the same thing when my kids went through the phase as well and I got all caught up with things like Walking With Dinosaurs and its ilk.
Which is all a round-about way of saying that I thought of myself as being fairly well-informed about paleontology, As with most people I went through a dinosaur phase as a kid where I could list off a list of Latin and Greek scientific names of extinct reptiles that was around ten times longer than the list of politicians I'd ever heard of. Which is all a round-about way of saying that I thought of myself as being fairly well-informed about paleontology, at least from a pop-science perspective.
This book did an excellent job of bringing that pop-science overview of the field much more up-to-date. For instance, I was aware that paleontology in China had been going off with some really exciting discoveries, but I had no idea how key that has been to the overall understanding of dinosaur lineage. There also appears to be some fairly exciting new thinking about the origin of dinosaurs and the early period of the Triassic that I was entirely unaware of.
In short, this is a great book for establishing an up-to-date popular science-level overview of the dinosaur element of paleontology, all made that much more engaging by a series of personal anecdotes from the author and his own career and interaction with his peers. Aug 03, Kathleen rated it really liked it. Brusatte has written a highly readable account of those new advances.
I admit that I enjoy reading about how paleontologists have determined that dinosaurs had feathers; that they were colored, and likely proved to be advantageous in attracting mates. And those dinosaurs that later became birds may have first used wing action to attract more attention, and just stumbled upon how wing action could result in gliding and eventually flying. It just takes a few millennia to make it happen. The number of new discoveries regarding dinosaurs over the past twenty years is mind-boggling.
I look forward to learning more in the next twenty. How I wish there was a time machine and I could go back and experience the dinosaurs live in action - off course from a safe spot! Reading through this book is that time machine. Clubbed with the technological breakthroughs, this gets better by the day! Reading this book will help to not only enhance the way you watch Jurassic movies, but also the way you observe the world around you.
Jun 21, Krista rated it really liked it Shelves: The rise and fall of the dinosaurs is an incredible story, of a time when giant beasts and other fantastic creatures made the world their own.
They walked on the very ground below us, their fossils now entombed in rock — the clues that tell this story. To me, it's one of the greatest narratives in the history of our planet. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is thoroughly enjoyable pop science: Who doesn't love dinosaurs? Totally accessible but fact-filled and balanced with personal stories which I acknowledge might strain the patience of those of a more academic bent , it all worked for me.
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On the sauropods whose tracks he studied on the Scottish Isle of Skye: There's really no better way to say it: Awesome in the literal sense of the word — impressive, daunting, inspiring awe. If I was handed a blank sheet of paper and pen and told to create a mythical beast, my imagination could never match what evolution created in sauropods.
It was a killing machine, torture chamber for its prey, and an evil mask all in one. The arms were accessories to murder. The writing gets amped up when T. Rex meets its favourite meal: Triceratops , like its archnemesis T. In films and documentaries, it usually plays the gentle, sympathetic plant-eater, the perfect dramatic foil to the Tyrant King. But it's not all movie magic; no, these two dinosaurs truly would have been rivals 66 million years ago The King needed immense amounts of flesh to fuel its metabolism; its three-horned comrade was fourteen tons of slow-moving prime steak.
You can figure out what happened next. So, you either enjoy a professor writing like a teenaged dino-fanboy, or you don't. Dracula, in all seriousness, has nothing on the Dinosaur Baron. Thomas Carr — my absinthe-drinking, Goth-dressing friend who studies T. Clad in khaki it was far too hot for his usual all-black getup and sucking down Gatorade by the gallon absinthe was more of an indoor pursuit , he attacked the mudstones with his rock hammer which he nicknamed Warrior and his pickaxe Warlord , exposing a number of new Triceratops bones.
And working on the other side of the world in China, Brusatte describes another rising star: Jingmai O'Connor calls herself a paleontologista — fitting given her fashionista style of leopard-print Lycra, piercings, and tattoos, all of which are at home in the club but stand out in a good way among the plaid-and-beard crowd that dominates academia.
A native of Southern California — half Irish, half-Chinese by blood — Jingmai is a Roman Candle of energy — delivering caustic one-liners one moment, speaking in eloquent paragraphs about politics the next, and then it's on to music or art or her own unique brand of Buddhist philosophy.
And speaking of the first birds: Brusatte makes the incontrovertible case that all true dinosaurs not crocs or other proto-reptiles were in a direct line to modern day birds and shared many of the same body features flow-through lungs, wishbones, and yes, feathers; there's a paleontologist working today who can even determine the colours of their plumage. But, if I can mentally shift the T. After all of the enthusiasm Brusatte displays for the rise and evolutionary success of the dinosaurs, the final chapter on their sudden demise is urgently and tragically related: The good news is that this catastrophic event paved the wave for the rise of the mammals, and us; the bad news is that we're no more special than the dinosaurs, and catastrophes — including those of our own making — can strike at any time.
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