Dinosaurs haunt museum halls, stomp across movie screens, and adorn just about any product you can name. Despite groundbreaking discoveries, the dinosaurs of our childhood are entrenched in our minds, and new science struggles to overcome the inaccurate monsters of Jurassic Park. In My Beloved Bront[...]
In "My Beloved Brontosaurus," the dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek enriches the child-like sense of
wonder that dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly
abilities, instill in us. Investigating the latest discoveries in paleontology, he breathes new [...]
The first book on the hunt for evolution's 'missing links' over the last three decades - and what palaeontologists' findings mean for our place on earth. Darwin's theory was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms w[...]
"Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself."--"Discover Magazine"""In delightful prose, Switek] . . . superbly shows that ' i]f we can let go of our conceit, ' we will see the preciousness of life in all its forms."--"Publishers [...]