The shortest history of the dinosaurs : the 230 million-year story of their time on earth / Riley Black
A highlight-reel history of the dinosaurs, told like never before--bringing their world to vivid life in a paleontological detective story. The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the 230-million-year epic of these staggeringly fascinating prehistoric creatures, covering their small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and stunning evolutionary success--before an unthinkable asteroid event brought everything to a screeching halt. But this history digs deeper, using numerous recent fossil discoveries and fresh understandings of genetics and evolution to show how we've gleaned so much about a long-lost world from mere fragments of fossil. Marshaling the evidence, award-winning author Riley Black reveals the startling relationships that dinosaurs shared with one another, the land they lived on, and other animal species. By conjuring a more complete picture of Earth in the age of the dinosaurs, she shows us how these massive monsters owe their rise to luck as much as to their cunning--and the many surprising ways they left an indelible mark on their dramatically changing world.
Record details
- ISBN: 9798893030563
- Physical Description: xi, 225 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York, NY : The Experiment, LLC, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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- Formatted Contents Note:
- Key moments in the history of the dinosaurs -- Major dinosaur discoveries on every continent -- Introduction -- How to make a terrible lizard -- Eggs and nests -- Growing up dinosaur -- Hot-running dinosaurs -- The largest creatures to walk the earth -- Dinosaurs of a feather -- Dinosaur diets -- How dinosaurs made their world -- Decoration and defense -- The social dinosaur -- Dinosaurs undone -- How to become a fossil -- Afterword -- Further reading.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | 567.9 BLA (Text) | 36015002720775 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
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