Pterosaurs: From Deep TimeAn epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time Traveller's Wife London, 1896. Andrew Harrington is young, wealthy and heartbroken. His lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty rails against the position of women in Victorian society. Forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, she yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. But hidden in the attic of popular author - and noted scientific speculator - H.G. Wells is a machine that will change everything. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem - to escape it, to change it, might offer them the hope they need... |
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... Mesozoic , the ammonites , probably one of the commonest animals in the seas over which pterosaurs soared , died out , together with the dinosaurs . Some of the backboned animals that roamed the Mesozoic lands or swam in the seas would ...
... Mesozoic . Many other groups , including dinosaurs , ammonites , plesiosaurs , and most Mesozoic birds , died out , too . Indeed , the scale of loss was so great that the event is termed a " mass extinction " and numbers among the five ...
... Mesozoic can be found in Mesozoic Birds : Above the Heads of Dinosaurs , edited by Luis Chiappe and Larry Witmer ( 2002 ) . 19. Cretaceous seas were inhabited by a family of large , flightless diving birds , named the hesper ...