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Description edit
A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. She is an intelligent killer... So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and the eyes belong to an... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters edit
- Raptor Red: Main character, the Utahraptor this book is written about. Mostly from her perspective.
- Sister: Raptor Red's sister and mother of her nieces
- segnosaur: Mt. Dwelling, Digging Dino with sharp claws.
- astro: Common prey animal, large sauropod (long necked dino) short for astrodon
- Aegi: Small burrowing mammal, aegilodon
- Acro: Carnivorous dino, larger than Raptor Red, her enemy, a shortened word for acrocanthosaurus. an early cretaceous apex predator
- Deinonych: Small carnivorous dino, hunts in packs, deinonychus antrihoppus, smaller in size than Utahraptor, roughly half the size of a human,
- consort: raptor reds prospective partner. a very quirky and impulsive Utahraptor.
Quotes edit
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“A hot spasm of pain makes Raptor Red's left leg fold up, and she starts to fall, catching herself with her arm.”
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“The baby gaston shut his eyes and went whackity-whack at the floodwater.”
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“It's a Cretaceous highway of information, all written in shit.”
First Sentence edit
A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the dull undergrowth of conifers and ferns that bound the edges of mud flats and riverbeds.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Raptor Attack
Raptor Red
To Skinny for Parenthood (and too full of ticks)
The Computer of Sisterhood
The Turtle of Trinity
Flood and Panzers!
Whackity-whacks
Reluctant Sister-in-Law
Manure, Love, and Flowers
Tank Destroyer
Famine and the Wing Shadow
Bubbles
Always Go for the One That Limps
Two-Tiered Drama
The Cutting Edge of Bug Boppers
Furball Liberator
Cretaceous Water Lanterns
Tentacles
Death from the Sea
Segno Caves
Whip-Tail
The End of Utahraptor
Raptors in the Clouds
Raptor Family Values
Epilogue
Dramatis Personae
Acknowledgments
Themes & Symbolism edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert T. Bakker (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: U.S.
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-553-10124-2
Page Count: 246
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: U.S.
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-553-10124-2
Page Count: 246
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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