His new book " The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ," telling the story of dinosaurs from their origin to extinction, was just published by William Morrow. I'm a paleontologist, and I visit here at least once a year, to hunt for fossils of dinosaurs and other long-extinct creatures. It appeared that dinosaurs would keep on ruling the world forever, as they had done for over 150 million years. Faster, perhaps, than even during the five mass extinctions of Earth history, including the one that killed the dinosaurs. The Earth has been through them before, and dinosaurs and other extinct animals can tell the story of what happened.

Source: CNN May 25, 2018 10:52 UTC