NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Donald R. Prothero's Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America (Smithsonian Books, 2016). The preview consists of chapter 4, "Demise of the Dinosaurs." "Why did the dinosaurs vanish?" Prothero writes. "One popular account is a simplistic story of a colliding object from space as the only cause of extinction. The true story is much more complicated and much more interesting."
Kirkus Reviews praised Giants of the Lost World as delivering "amusing anecdotes, a lucid history of evolutionary ideas, stories of the great fossil discoveries, and an entertaining description of animal evolution on an isolated continent." Prothero, a winner of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award, is the author of a number of books, including Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Columbia University Press, 2007) and The Story of Life in 25 Fossils (Columbia University Press, 2015).