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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... evolved several different lifestyles : Some developed large , globular teeth and went in for feeding on shellfish while others , among them huge 15 meter - long ( 50 foot - long ) levia- thans such as Mosasaurus , preyed on fish or ...
... evolved for a quite different reason — for use in the flight apparatus . 26 Further Down the Diapsid Tree ? A second possibility is that ptero- saurs branched off somewhat lower in the diapsid tree , from among several early lineages of ...
... evolved by the time these animals first become visible in the fossil record . Three of them are known directly from fossil material , while two more , ghosts on the stage , can be inferred from our understanding of pterosaur genealogy ...