A sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy. Print run 75,000.

"We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals...

"Test your chops and discover if you have what it takes to survive at a time when Earth looked, well, a tad different in this ultimate survival guide to the prehistoric age. Find out how to make it through exploding volcanoes and mega monsoons--while dodging giant Permian bugs! See how to fend off an angry pterosaur and learn what to do if you're caught in a stampede of enormous titanosaurs. Discover what you could eat (spoiler alert: You better like...

"You can be the absolute expert on all things dinosaur -- from colossal carnivores to feathered fossils. Facts, figures, timelines, and new discoveries straight from paleontologists in the field: We've got it all, and then some. Meet the long-neck Dreadnoughtus and the tiny Compsognathus. Run with T. rex, and swim with Spinosaurus. Get to know the biggest, baddest beasts from prehistory in this book chock-full of everything you'd ever what to know...