Comments on: Book review – King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex/2025/06/12/book-review-king-tyrant-a-natural-history-of-tyrannosaurus-rex/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:34:43 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2025/06/12/book-review-king-tyrant-a-natural-history-of-tyrannosaurus-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-95291Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:37:15 +0000/?p=31337#comment-95291[…] Brusatte introduces the dinosauromorphs, the close evolutionary forebears of the dinosaurs. He talks us through the Triassic, when all the world was united in the supercontinent Pangaea, small dinosaurs competed with early mammal relatives, and the world was ruled by a reptilian sister group that would leave us the crocodiles. After the end-Triassic mass extinction, the dinosaurs were left standing and rose to dominance during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. We meet the sauropods, gigantic long-necked herbivores, and the various theropod carnivores that terrorised them. Two chapters introduce the tyrannosaurs and its most famous representative: Tyrannosaurus rex. […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist/2025/06/12/book-review-king-tyrant-a-natural-history-of-tyrannosaurus-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-95290Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:31:44 +0000/?p=31337#comment-95290[…] done with predatory dinosaurs yet. With the publication of Mark Witton’s much-anticipated King Tyrant just now, I turn towards that most famous of theropods. I do so, however, by taking a detour via […]

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