Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, for example, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart—a greater span of time than the entire post–T. rex history of the planet. Furthermore, we often know even less about the environments these animals lived in—the other animals and plants inhabiting a dramatic changing Earth alongside the dinosaurs. The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the full story, a 230-million-year epic of small beginnings,...
Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, fo...
