Audiobooks by Steve Brusatte

Auge y caída de los dinosaurios: La nueva historia de un mundo perdido

Los dinosaurios, como jamás te los habían contado. Tiranosaurios primitivos del tamaño de un ser humano, monstruos carnívoros de dimensiones descomunales, misteriosos reptiles emplumados... Los dinosaurios, las criaturas más formidables de la Tierra, se desvanecieron hace ya sesenta y seis millones de años, pero siguen siendo uno de los misterios más intrigantes de todos los tiempos. En Auge y caída de los dinosaurios, el paleontólogo Steve Brusatte repasa la evolución de estos extraordinarios seres mientras nos hace partícipes de sus apasionantes expediciones alrededor del mundo y sus recientes descubrimientos, que ponen en entredicho todo cuanto creíamos saber sobre la evolución de los dinosaurios. Desde los inicios del Triásico hasta su repentina y catastrófica extinción al final del Cretácico, este electrizante libro redefine la historia de un mundo perdido y desentierra los enigmáticos orígenes, la catastrófica extinción, la enorme diversidad y el apasionante legado de unas criaturas legendarias. Apadrinado por la Scientific American, este no es otro libro más sobre criaturas extinguidos, sino la prueba definitiva de que la saga continúa. Reseñas: «¿Cuál es el mejor libro que he leído el año pasado? Auge y Caída de los Dinosaurios.» Bill Clinton, Time «Brusatte... tiene el talento natural de entretener. Sus historias de dinosaurios y las personas que los aman dan vida a la paleontología. Sabe cómo entretener y educar para que la ciencia cobre vida y quedes absortoen las historias sobre cómo el conocimiento se expande y refina. Te recomiendo encarecidamente que leas Auge y Caída de los Dinosaurios. Será entretenido y educativo a la vez.» Newt Gingrich, FoxNews.com «Una obra maestra de la divulgación científica.» The Washington Post «La biografía definitiva sobre los dinosaurios. Sencillamente fascinante.» Scientific American «Steve Brusatte está liderando algunas de las investigaciones más emocionantes que existen actualmente sobre los dinosaurios y nos sabe transmitir esa emoción en su libro.» Carl Zimmer, The New York Times «Si alguna vez has amado a los dinosaurios debes comprar este libro. [...] Brusattehace con los dinosaurios lo que E.O. Wilson hizo con las hormigas y Carl Sagan con las estrellas.» The Washington Times «Una esclarecedora narración científica, extremadamente visceral, que nos permite caminar junto a estas criaturas por sus albores en el Triásico, su reinado jurásico y su repentina caída.» Nature «Una lectura indispensable para los apasionados de estos antiguos reptiles y su mundo perdido.» Kirkus Reviews «Excelente. A la escritura de Brusatte no le falta brío, vigor ni energía. Los entusiastas de los dinosaurios están de enhorabuena.» Current Biology «Fascinante. Divulgación científica en todo su esplendor.» Booklist «Cautivador. Ciencia de primera clase. [...] Espléndido.» Publishers Weekly «Un estudio apasionante. Sin duda el mejor libro sobre los dinosaurios desde los años ochenta.Brusatte escribe con la autoridad que le confiere ser uno de los expertos más destacados de su campo.» Sunday Times «El entusiasmo que pone en narrar sus historias hace que devoremos el libro, que va provocando en el lector un asombro tras otro.» Ira Flatow, El Cultural

Steve Brusatte (Author), Cristian Villamil (Narrator)

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

The passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to become ascendant. But mammals have a much deeper history. They – or, more precisely, we – originated around the same time as the dinosaurs, over 200 million years ago; mammal roots lie even further back, some 325 million years. Over these immense stretches of geological time, mammals developed their trademark features: hair, keen senses of smell and hearing, big brains and sharp intelligence, fast growth and warm-blooded metabolism, a distinctive line-up of teeth (canines, incisors, premolars, molars), mammary glands that mothers use to nourish their babies with milk, qualities that have underlain their success story. Out of this long and rich evolutionary history came the mammals of today, including our own species and our closest cousins. But today’s 6,000 mammal species - the egg-laying monotremes including the platypus, marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas that raise their tiny babies in pouches, and placentals like us, who give birth to well-developed young – are simply the few survivors of a once verdant family tree, which has been pruned both by time and mass extinctions. In The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, palaeontologist Steve Brusatte weaves together the history and evolution of our mammal forebears with stories of the scientists whose fieldwork and discoveries underlie our knowledge, both of iconic mammals like the mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers of which we have all heard, and of fascinating species that few of us are aware of. For what we see today is but a very limited range of the mammals that have existed; in this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Steve Brusatte tells their – and our – story.

Steve Brusatte (Author), Patrick Lawlor (Narrator)

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top dinosaur expert Brusatte, tells the real story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet. Using the fossil clues that have been gathered using state of the art technology, Brusatte follows these magnificent creatures from their beginnings in the Early Triassic period, through the Jurassic period to their final days in the Cretaceous and the legacy that they left behind. Along the way, Brusatte introduces us to modern day dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what it's like to be a paleontologist. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is full of thrilling accounts of some of his personal discoveries, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs preserved in lava from China. At a time when Homo sapiens has existed for less than 200,000 years and we are already talking about planetary extinction, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a timely reminder of what humans can learn from the magnificent creatures who ruled the earth before us.

Steve Brusatte (Author), Patrick Lawlor (Narrator)

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The The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

A sweeping and groundbreaking history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field -discovering ten new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork -masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages. Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers -themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period -into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs' peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth's history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a "sixth extinction." Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research -which he calls "a new golden age of discovery" -and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China. An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs' epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.

Steve Brusatte (Author), Patrick Lawlor (Narrator)

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