The Age of Dinosaurs Quotes

“Birds are dinosaurs.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Remarkable Animals

“Many a dinosaur was probably swept away by floodwaters or entombed by mud avalanches. But the megamonsoons also had another effect. They helped divide Pangea into environmental provinces, characterized by different amounts of precipitation, varying severity of the monsoonal winds, and different temperatures. The equatorial region was extremely hot and humid, a tropical hell that would make summer in today’s Amazon seem a trip to Santa’s workshop by comparison. Then there were vast stretches of desert, extending about 30 degrees of latitude on either side of the equator—like the Sahara, only covering a much broader swath of the planet. Temperatures here were well into the hundreds (over 35 degrees Celsius), probably all year long, and the monsoonal rains that pounded other parts of Pangea were absent here, offering little more than a trickle of precipitation. But the monsoons exerted a great impact in the midlatitudes. These areas were slightly cooler but much more wet and humid than the deserts, far more hospitable to life. Herrerasaurus, Eoraptor, and the other Ischigualasto dinosaurs lived in such a setting, smack in the middle of the midlatitude humid belt of southern Pangea.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals

“Gargoyleosaurus”
― Steve Brusatte, The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Remarkable Animals

“At the end of the Permian Period, these gases caused the Earth to get warmer by about 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit),”
― Steve Brusatte, The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Remarkable Animals