The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
My journey to this book was a bit unusual. Though it’s been more than a decade now, I still have vivid memories of watching Dinotopia, a TV adaptation (featuring the incomparable David Thewlis) of a book by illustrator James Gurney. I rediscovered Gurney’s work about a year ago on a YouTube binge and was hooked immediately. Gurney is widely considered the world’s preeminent dinosaur artist, using fossils and discussions with scientists to produce lifelike portrayals of dinosaurs. Seeking more information about the animals depicted by Gurney (and to pull myself out of the YouTube sinkhole), I picked up this book by Steve Brusatte to continue my exploration of dinosaurs in a [...]