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Book

The rise and fall of the dinosaurs : a new history of a lost world

Call Number

  • 567.9 B9121 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : William Morrow, [2018]

Physical Description

404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

A sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy.

Contents

  • 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.

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