Benton, Michael J.: - Michael J. Benton is head of the world-leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, and Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves. n