Professor Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Steve is widely recognized as one of the leading palaeontologists of his generation. He has named and described over a dozen new species of dinosaurs and mammals, and led ground-breaking studies on how dinosaurs rose to dominance and went extinct and how mammals replaced them. His book, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and he is the science consultant for the Jurassic Park film franchise.