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Summary:

This book explains how major extinctions have marked the history of life on Earth.

The author, Éric Buffetaut, renowned paleontologist, explores the possible causes of the disappearance of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. He presents different scientific hypotheses: asteroid impact, massive volcanic eruptions, climate changes...

But the book doesn't stop at dinosaurs: it shows that these mass extinctions, as destructive as they were, also enabled the emergence of new life forms. Each crisis has shaped the living world as we know it today.

Link with my Matilda:

In The extinction of the dinosaurs, Éric Buffetaut immerses us in the heart of Earth's great extinctions — those moments when life disappears to be reborn anew.

By studying fossils, he reveals that each crisis erases the memory of the vanished world, ready to tell its story to those who know how to listen.

This idea resonates deeply with the Matilda Effect.

Just as fossils testify to a forgotten life, women scientists erased from history are also the "fossils" of human knowledge: precious traces, long invisible, that we gradually rediscover.

Throughout time, researchers like Mary Anning have unearthed the secrets of the past, without their names surviving their discoveries.

Today, thanks to science and memory, their stories resurface — like a fossil delicately uncovered from rock.