The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!

by Steve Brusatte

today, as Africa is pulling away from the Middle East at the rate of about one centimeter per year.

Studies of bone growth indicate that most sauropods matured from guinea-pig-size hatchlings to airplane-size adults in only about thirty or forty years,

While mammals have a simple lung that breathes in oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide in a cycle, birds have what is called a unidirectional lung: air flows across it in one direction only, and oxygen is extracted during both inhalation and exhalation.

distinctive body plan.

If your teeth look like knives and your fingers and toes are hooks, then you’re not eating cabbages.

It was over 1,270 pages long; meticulous as Thomas always is, it’s one of his shorter scholarly works.