This relationship was the one that formed his career.īefore Brusatte was born, another dinosaur fan named Paul Olsen wrote letters to Richard Nixon during his presidential term, pleading with him to preserve a certain site that was rich in dinosaur tracks, which the boy had heard of near his home in New Jersey. He tells us (in his self-aware, yet cheerful way) how he stalked those whom he worshipped from afar, eventually earning a spot as a resident and helping with the projects of Paul Sereno, one of the subjects of his obsession.
In his 2018 book, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, he leads us-in fact, grabs us by the hand-as we’re introduced to his fellow paleontologists from China, Romania, Italy and other points around the globe. If anything, it grew as the years went on. He never gave up his all-consuming passion for fossils. Bring on the king, the terrible lizard with the all-conquering teeth! Steve Brusatte’s passion for paleoĪs we grew up, most of us came to believe that, since they’re so long dead, there was no point in maintaining an overarching interest in dinosaurs. Nobody dreamed of being any of the duck-billed dinosaurs or herbivores that were its prey, spending their lives munching on grass and shrubs while trying to avoid becoming lunch for the always-hungry T.
Its sheer lethality-embodied by those massive teeth, those overly muscled jaws and its overall transcendent badness-was irresistible to most kids who had any exposure to drawings and other depictions of this prehistoric beast. Kids love dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex, or T.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS: A New History of a Lost World Steve Brusatte
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