8-minute read
keywords: dinosaurs, evolutionary biology, paleontology

I am not quite 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 palaeontologist David Hone’s 2016 book The Tyrannosaur Chronicles, which provides an accessible introduction to the 100-million-year history of the family that would ultimately spawn Tyrannosaurus rex. Along the way, there are shades of mythbusting that would foreshadow his later books.

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