Stephen Brusatte is an American evolutionary biologist and science popularizer who studies the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs, and he is Professor of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Dinosaurs (2008) and The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018), a new history of these animals written for general readers that became a New York Times bestseller. He followed it with The Rise and Reign of the Mammals in 2022, and in 2026 he published The Story of Birds, which traces birds back to their dinosaur ancestors.
