Comments on: Book review – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:51:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don’t Know, What We Can, and What We’ll Never Know | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-95188Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:51:50 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-95188[…] plenty of popular palaeontology books that tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and several excellent examples have been reviewed here in the past. For the 500th review on this blog, I take the road less […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, & Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-94743Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:37:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-94743[…] before the asteroid hit. This is far from a consensus view. As discussed by Steve Brusatte in The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, work by his and other groups shows that, though a few groups were in decline in North […]

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]]>By: Book review – Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-85819Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:39:30 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-85819[…] The book furthermore corrects common misconceptions and outdated ideas. Vintage palaeoart depicts the long-necked plesiosaurs as having extremely flexible necks that were held aloft above water in a swan-like fashion. This was never grounded in fact and current thinking comes down on necks having limited if still impressive mobility. We similarly often think of them as chasing sardine-like fish, but that underrates their predatory abilities. And then there is the controversial idea that mosasaurs were a dead-end group for whom the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact was the final straw. Not so, argues Naish, they were evolving rapidly right up to the K–Pg boundary. Interestingly, this has also been suggested for dinosaurs, where it has attracted similar objections. […]

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]]>By: The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals: A New History, From The Shadow Of The Dinosaurs To Us - 3 Quarks Daily/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-49754Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:46:44 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-49754[…] “You know what really floats my boat? Mammals.” After the runaway success of his 2018 book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, palaeontologist Stephen Brusatte shifted his attention and now presents you with the […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-49687Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:34:02 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-49687[…] know what really floats my boat? Mammals.” After the runaway success of his 2018 book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, palaeontologist Stephen Brusatte shifted his attention and now presents you with the follow-up, […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-49297Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:15:00 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-49297[…] Ends of the World. In popular books since then, various palaeontologists have come out in favour or against the idea of an already-declining dinosaur dynasty for which the asteroid was merely a coup de […]

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]]>By: Book review – A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-33975Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:44:34 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-33975[…] when he gets to the dinosaurs, Gee cleverly refrains from trying to write an overview, as so many excellent books already exist on this topic. Instead, he focuses on several biological aspects that made them so […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-12748Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:13:14 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-12748[…] hotly debated (recent examples of palaeontologists airing different views in their books are The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Dinosaurs Rediscovered). And the idea of a global conflagration following impact is not […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-11602Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:43:22 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-11602[…] in 25 Discoveries bubbles over with the same love for the field that characterised Brusatte’s The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and Benton’s The Dinosaurs Rediscovered, making it a must-read for dinosaur enthusiasts. You […]

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]]>By: Book review – End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/05/04/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-the-untold-story-of-a-lost-world/comment-page-1/#comment-10077Sat, 30 May 2020 16:13:46 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-10077[…] hotly debated (recent examples of palaeontologists airing different views in their books are The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Dinosaurs Rediscovered). And the idea of a global conflagration following impact is not […]

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