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

TIL:

 

1. T. Rex was a pack hunter, had simple proto-feathers, and was as smart as a chimp.

 

2. Dinosaurs with full feathers came in a rainbow of colors.

 

3. A titanosaur vertebrate was the size of a bathtub. 

 

4. The Chicxulub Crater is the second largest crater on the planet. I learned this after finishing the book, while researching the catastrophic asteroid. There is one larger in South Africa, approximately 160km wide and is 2 billion years old.

 

5. A lot of beliefs I hold as commonsense people actually argued about. Yes, birds are dinosaurs. Yes, an asteroid killed the non-flying dinosaurs. 

 

Also, as a side note, there are religious fruitcakes that don't believe in dinosaurs. They say we just make random rocks look like bones to defy the bible. Oh people. Smh