The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

This popular-science history follows dinosaurs from their origins after the Permian extinctions through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous to the asteroid impact that ended the non-avian line. Brusatte writes as a working paleontologist, moving among fossil sites, museum drawers, and the changing family tree that now links birds to theropods. He treats major groups, climate, predation, and the methods by which bones, tracks, and feathers are read. Famous specimens and recent finds sit beside the ordinary labor of fieldwork. The book is a narrative of dinosaur evolution, not a children's picture encyclopedia.

Bound in brown cloth printed and blocked with a wrap-around colour picture. Brown slipcase printed with a wrap-around colour picture. In 2025 signed by Steve Brusatte and Davide Bonadonna.