A review by minty
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

3.0

I definitely learned some interesting things about dinosaurs (pteradactyls were NOT dinos!), and the chapter all about how today's birds are, literally, dinosaurs was awesome. The book did a good job of contextualizing their timeline as it related to other dinosaurs and pangea and such, but what I wish I could get more of is some relation to what's happening today--if dinosaurs went extinct over a matter of "a few thousand years," is this akin to the extinctions we're seeing over the historical record of humans? I guess I'm left with more questions than I knew I had after reading this.