Dylan Waters’s Reviews > The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us > Status Update

“Opened its mouth wide, and delivered a perfectly aimed puncture to the throat with its sabers, then stood back to watch its victim bleed to death” Chapter 9 was great, woolly mammoth section was pretty good but the smilodon part was perfect. Truly terrifying.

Thomas Jefferson was a nerd for extinct late Cenozoic megafauna. Who would’ve known.