He offers plenty of meat about Rex to chew on, especially the way it chewed: its bite terrifyingly unique among all dino carnivores. “So many scientists are impulsively drawn to the majesty that is the King, the way so many people are obsessed with movie stars and athletes,” Brusatte writes. The perfect “killing machine” has been a fan favorite in movies dating back to the classic “King Kong,” after all, achieving its greatest role in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” - the film that changed the author’s life. The author can’t be blamed for devoting a whole chapter to the king of the dinosaurs: T. “It’s a mystery that quite literally has kept me up at night. Yet the head-scratcher remains: Why did early dinosaurs survive the hell of the Triassic extinction, leaving them - free of competitors - to multiply and dominate? “I wish I had a good answer,” Brusatte confesses. Dinosaurs could not have flourished without these dramatic events that reshaped the earth just over 250 million years ago - lava spewing from countless erupting volcanoes, smothering life wherever it flowed, greenhouse gases blanketing the planet, heating the ancient ocean and triggering a sweltering global warming that helped wipe out most living land animals. Brusatte systematically takes us through the various stages of dinosaur evolution, starting with the pre-dino Triassic Period, when a mass extinction cleared the path for their rise. The geek in me loves the tsunami of fine details flooding the page, written in the breezy style of a rising star millennial scientist.
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