The rise and fall of the Dinosaurs. Steve Brusatte (2018)

Billed as the best book on the subject, world renowned Paleontologist Steve Brusatte has crafted an excellent narrative charting the rise and fall of these magnificent creatures, from the early much smaller Proto Dinosaurs at the beginning of the Triassic period, fighting for survival alongside the early reptiles and mammals to their growth in size and ultimate rise to world domination in the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They would dominate the planet for 240 million years.

An immensely enjoyable and informative read and as Brusatte points out, (citing overwhelming evidence) dinosaurs are still living amongst us. The killer asteroid that smashed in to the earth 65 million years ago did not wipe out all the Dinosaurs. A few theropod species such as velociraptors survived and over millions of years of evolution became birds. Yes, birds are true, genuine dinosaurs