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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... fibers.27 The largest and most prominent component of the flight membranes , wing fibers have been known about since the late 1800s and were first no- ticed by the Munich - based paleontologist , Alfred von Zittel , in the isolated wing ...
... fibers in the wing would have kept the cheiropa- tagium stretched out from front to back , while still allowing it to be folded , concertina - like , parallel to the grain of the fibers . Fossils of Sordes and Rham- phorhynchus also ...
... fibers . See wing fibers fibro - lamellar bone , 137 fibula , 129-130 films , pterosaurs in , 275n filtration teeth , 98 fingers , 293n , 294n anatomy of , 125-127 flight adaptation of , 168 walking usage , 200 fish in Mesozoic era , 24 ...