Michael Benton is professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and head of the world-leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, The Dinosaurs Rediscovered and When Life Nearly Died, all published by Thames & Hudson. He was awarded an OBE for services to Palaeontology and community engagement and regularly appears in the media to discuss dinosaurs and understanding the history of life.
Preface
Part 1. The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction
1. The First Animals and First Mass Extinctions
2. The Cambrian Explosion
3. The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction
Part 2. The Late Devonian Mass Extinctions
4. The Devonian Crisis
5. Impacts of Global Warming
Part 3. The End-Permian Mass Extinction
6. The Greatest Crisis of All Time
7. Triassic Recovery
Part 4. The End-Triassic Mass Extinction
8. The Carnian Pluvial Event and Origin of the Dinosaurs
9. The End-Triassic Extinction
10. The Universal Hyperthermal Crisis Model
Part 5. The End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
11. The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution
12. The Day the Dinosaurs Died
13. Recovery and Building of Modern Ecosystems
Part 6. The Anthropocene
14. The End of the Ice Age
15. The Industrial Age
