Sixty-six millions years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the dinosaurs remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The rise and fall of the dinosaurs reveals their thrilling, 200-million-year-long story as never before. Paleontologist Steve Brusatte masterfully brings to life the lost world of the dinosaurs, illuminating their enigmatic origins spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclymic extinson and starting living legacy ...

Timeline of the age of dinosaurs -- Dinosaur family tree -- World maps of the prehistoric Earth -- Prologue: The golden age of discovery -- The dawn of the dinosaurs -- Dinosaurs rise up -- Dinosaurs become dominant -- Dinosaurs and drifting continents -- The tyrant dinosaurs -- The king of the dinosaurs -- Dinosaurs at the top of their game -- Dinosaurs take flight -- Dinosaurs die out -- Epilogue: After the dinosaurs.