Why Dinosaurs Matter

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by Kenneth Lacovara · 2017

A popular-science book in which paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara explores what dinosaurs reveal about deep time, Earth’s history, evolution, and humanity’s place in the world. It also uses the dinosaurs’ extinction and the current biodiversity crisis to reflect on the environmental challenges facing the future.

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1 episode featuring Why Dinosaurs Matter

TED Radio Hour
A New Jersey fossil bed captures the dinosaurs’ final day
The episode connects a precisely preserved mass extinction to the human responsibility to understand and protect the living world that followed.
Aug 28, 2026 · 50 min

1 episode featuring Why Dinosaurs Matter

A New Jersey fossil bed captures the dinosaurs’ final day