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The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs: The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth
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Series: Shortest History
Ancient History GeneralDinosaursPaleontology
Publisher Price: $16.95
Publisher: Experiment
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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.
The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.
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