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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... well - preserved wing membrane of an Early Cretaceous Brazilian pterosaur from the Santana Formation of the Araripe Plateau . Several different layers , including a sheet of muscle fibers ( lowermost ) , are seen in this cross ...
... well - preserved snout of Harpactognathus , found in 1996 in the Upper Jurassic of Wyoming , not only shows that scaphognathines lived in North Ameri- ca , too , but reveals that , like many other pterosaurs , some members of this group ...
... well - preserved , uncrushed fossils , such as the Tokyo specimen of Coloborhynchus mentioned above , ' it is pos- sible to articulate the vertebrae with one another and then manipulate them www neck notarium back sacrum rib breast bone ...