The Birth of the Dinosaurs explores the age of reptiles and dinosaurs until their sudden demise approximately 65 million years ago. Take a closer look at the first birds and mammals who dominated the Earth, the origin of flowering plants, the rise of plant- and meat-eating dinosaurs and then their mass extinction.

Using stunning photographs and graphic 3-D images, The Birth of the Dinosaurs brings core curriculum subjects to life with an engaging design.

Written by bestselling author Michael Bright, his digestible approach to science makes this the perfect book for project work or interest reading.

This book is part of a book series called Planet Earth .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

Michael Bright is a best-selling author and award-winning radio and television producer, who has worked with the BBC's world-renowned Natural History Unit.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: The rise of the dinosaurs
• 2: Plant-eaters and meat-eating dinosaurs
• 3: Dinosaur herds and communication
• 4: Armoured dinosaurs
• 5: Origin of flowering plants
• 6: Domination of the air and sea not by dinosaurs, but their giant relatives - mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs
• 7: Evolution of birds from small meat-eating dinosaurs - flight evolved at least four times
• 8: What were the early mammals doing all this time?
• 9: Dinosaur nests
• 10: Mass extinction