![]() Thankfully, with this authoritative and “joyously” written book, the leading palaeontologist Steve Brusatte has “triumphantly risen to the challenge”. All this has created a pressing need for a readable guide to the current state of dinosaur research. ![]() Aided by technologies that “would have seemed fantastical to their 19th century forebears”, today’s palaeontologists are able to map the bodies and brains of dinosaurs in unprecedented detail, and “across the globe, in rocks from Alaska to Argentina, a new species is being identified at a rate of roughly one a week”. Moreover, they never actually died out: anatomical evidence has made it clear that birds are “fully fledged dinosaurs in their own right”. Scientists have come to realise that dinosaurs weren’t “ponderous and sluggish evolutionary dead ends” they were “fierce, fast” and clever, too. In the past half century, the traditional image of dinosaurs has been “decisively overturned”, said Tom Holland in The Sunday Times.
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