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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... ptero- very dactyloids . Yet , in addition to the short tail , they share several other special features in common with this group , such as the loss of the neck ribs and a reduction in the number of vertebrae in the main part of the ...
... ptero- saurs , individuals cluster into distinct groups of different sizes ( they can vaguely be made out in the graphs in Figure 7.7 ) and suggested that these rep- resented different generations , one per year . Ingenious and , if ...
... ptero- saurs is relatively easy : It was the stage at which individuals had completed the main period of growth and had become sexually mature or , put simply , were grown up and able to reproduce . Determining whether a particular ...