Dinosaurs are the most amazing animal group in the rich world of past geological epochs. Lords of the Earth for about 165 million years, dinosaurs exhibit a stunning variety of shapes, functions and behaviors. They marked one of the peaks in the evolution of vertebrates, although they are considered a brilliant failure of evolution due to their mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic era.
Even today, 65 million years after their mysterious extinction, dinosaurs arouse human curiosity and interest as one of the wonders of evolution on our planet. They emerged from paleontological museums and entered pop culture, occupying the space between reality, curiosity and fiction.
The book tells the story of the origin, rise and death of dinosaurs – the terrible lizards – through their amazing, dramatic and instructive story.
The book is intended for a wide range of readers – pupils, students, professionals and anyone interested in “empires” in the geological past of the Earth, as well as the problem of crises in evolution and mass extinctions of large groups in the history of the Earth.
