3.5/5

A book for the dino-nerds. Paleontologist author Benton explores how the field of paleontology has changed over the last half a century and reviews some of the most interesting and prominent discoveries from this time period.

- Whilst this is written for the lay person, the book itself is quite technical and the language is at times not beginner-friendly. This does allow for more depth on the subjects covered but if you're new to reading about science, particularly geology and biology, it may be an idea to have a dictionary or Google to hand to look-up words. Having read several other books on the subject, this is not the first book I would recommend to someone starting out.

- Some of the topics discussed really did make me smile. I particularly enjoyed the sections covering the evolution of birds and the science behind determining what colours some dinosaurs are. The format of the chapters is an over 
-arching theme, such as dinosaur DNA, then broken down into smaller chunks by answering a flow of smaller questions linked to the chapter topic. This format works well and has good flow.

- How science works is very much at the heart of this book. From initial explanations of science from history (complete with Rutherford quotation) to the evolution of hypothesis and evidence based science, The Dinosaurs Rediscovered makes it very clear that these discoveries are what we know now and that in the future evidence may come to light that may disprove some of these hypotheses and theories. The clarity in which the author explains this is beautiful.

An interesting book that would interest those with an interest in the dinosaurs and how our knowledge of them has changed over time.