Dinosaur Science

Spenser was just an ordinary boy who enjoyed video games more than reading until he was approached by a mysterious cowboy who gave him a small, white stone. Just touching the stone sent shivers up Spenser’s arm, and suddenly he wanted to try it out. That evening when Spenser read his book and held the stone, he found himself transported into the village of Arco, a boy from long ago who was trying to save his people from a ferocious dinosaur. Spenser and Arco team up to discover a secret about the dinosaur.

Kannon McCarthy and the team have overcome a multitude of difficulties already, but is the worst still to come? The team finally have the chance to take the submersible down to explore the waters around Cardea, although sticking to an agenda proves challenging due to a number of unexpected events and incidents. As Kannon continues to deal with his own demons and his team reveal previously unknown character flaws and quirks, Leopold and his daughter's motivations also remain unclear. On top of juggling the team's various ailments and inconsistencies, Kannon is faced with countering the ...

Years ago, Tega’s brother was torn from her life by a godlike alien far beyond human understanding. Only a bounty hunter armed with unmatched skills, cutting-edge weapons and advanced technology might stand a chance of finding him. But bounty hunters are forbidden from hunting aliens under penalty of losing their licence. If Tega wants her brother back, there’s only one option. Become a bounty hunter herself.

Taken from her home at a young age, Mai Changying is isolated and trained for life in the arena, competing on the backs of stampeding triceratops and other great beasts resurrected from millions of years in the past. But under her timberwolf tattoo and the ferocity of her competitive spirit, she has a secret desire - a longing for a pack, a family, a people.

Shapeshifting powers, forbidden love, and a kingdom hanging in the balance. Arianna’s always been the perfect Truthspoken Heir, the obedient future ruler of her interstellar kingdom. But when Arianna’s royal shapeshifting abilities fail her publicly and disastrously at her engagement ball, she suddenly finds herself on the outside of the life she called her own. Dressa’s the perfect socialite, the opposite of her older sister’s rigid control. When her sister goes down with a mysterious illness and is sent away from court, Dressa’s thrust into a position she never wanted. She’s ...

Henry Shore has spent the last decade hunting for, fighting, protecting people from, and exterminating rogue dinosaurs in his beloved Crater Lake National Park, and the towns around it. Once the chief park ranger there, now he’s retired and, since all the dinosaurs are supposedly gone, he’s trying to live his best retirement life. Except, for Henry, that doesn’t seem to be possible…because of a new sorrow he’s had to shoulder, and a new insidious breed of super-smart, highly intuitive dinosaurs that have suddenly emerged to again menace humanity.

Ladybird Audio Adventures is an original series for 4-to 7-year-olds; a new, entertaining and engaging way for children to learn about the world around them. These are special stories written exclusively for audio with fun sound and musical effects, perfect for listening at home, before bed and on long journeys. These fact-filled journeys travel through time and space teaching children all about five fascinating topics: Dinosaur Times, The Animal Kingdom, Outer Space, Amazing Vehicles and Deep Sea Dive.

The chicken can fly only a few metres but–somehow–this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human on the planet, there are three chickens. In Fowl Play, Sally Coulthard charts the chicken's fascinating journey from dinosaur to domestication to exploitation, exploring every aspect of the history of Gallus gallus domesticus.

This novelette won the Hugo award in 1996 and has been hailed by many as a science-fiction classic. Intelligent dinosaurs from outer space offer humanity the chance to use their transporter technology to join the galactic culture, but at a terrible price. When a routine transport goes wrong, one man must face the consequences of becoming too much like an alien.

The mission was supposed to be straightforward: infiltrate, retrieve the data drives, and extract. However, the crash changed everything. Stranded several kilometres from their destination and surrounded by a dense dark forest, Delta Six had no choice but to embark on a perilous journey inland toward Station X. Along the way, they encounter several unexpected challenges, one of which is being hunted by a super predator. Join Commander John Hicks and his crew of specialists as they fight tooth and nail for their own survival. Island X is a fast, action-packed dino adventure with many twists ...

Fifty years after Professor Challenger's discovery of the Lost World, America's last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for 70,000 years....

On Mintari, dinosaurs live again. Brontosaurs roam the forests. Mosasaurs haunt the deep blue seas. Tyrannosaurs prowl the plains. Life thrives. Yet life is also fragile. Amissa Triplehorn, a deadly huntress, leads an army of poachers. They sweep across Mintari, armed with modern weapons. Burning. Killing. Mintari bleeds. Only one man can stop Amissa: her brother. Joe Triplehorn is a Mintari Ranger. He vowed to defend the dinosaurs. To kill poachers. But could he truly kill his own sister?

Chief Park Ranger Henry Shore has dealt with and fought real live dinosaurs at his beloved Crater Lake National Park for over six years. With the help of his rangers, a few brave FBI friends, and army soldiers, he'd been victorious over a prehistoric lake creature and years later some particularly fiendish, and clever, specimens of the flying variety. He and his newspaper publisher wife, Ann, thought their park was finally rid of the monsters and they could reclaim their tranquil life in a place they cherished. Not so.

La inteligencia es un destello fugaz en la larga noche de la historia cósmica. Que pueblen la tierra no una sino dos especies inteligentes al mismo tiempo pone en cuestión cualquier cálculo de probabilidades. El hecho de que esas dos especies, tan distintas como complementarias, forjen una alianza que a su vez enciende una civilización desafía toda lógica.

The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller’s world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by a series of volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discovery that highlights today’s existential threat of greenhouse gasses and climate change—and one that sparked an all-out war waged by the male scientific establishment.

Dinosaurs. Majestic giants. They’ve captured our imagination for generations. On planet Mintari, they live again. Mintari is far from Earth. Wild. Pristine. A world where triceratops herd across grasslands, pterosaurs soar over golden mountains, and T-rexes prowl the misty forests. But these magnificent beasts might soon disappear. And only one man can save them. They call him Jurassic Joe; a semi-mythical figure, a ranger who lives in the wilderness of Mintari. He is the defender of dinosaurs and the bane of poachers. A folk hero...but is he real?

Jondy is a late 21st Century street kid in Newer New York City -- always hustling on her rollers, racking packets across the Big Square for anyone who pays, with bonus money measured in fractions of seconds, to earn enough cred-coin to buy food for her and her Gram. Tough as razorwire, smart as a multiplex processor and with laser-fast reflexes, Jondy has earned the title of Queen of the Rollerkids with bravery, brains, and sheer unbridled brass. But when Jondy and her Gram both fall into the hands of a ruthless hypercorps, they are exiled 150 million years in the past -- mining radioactive...

The humans' dinosaur killing serum and extermination practices had worked far better than anyone had prayed. The Earth belonged to the humans once more, and all its lands were safe - or so the world, Henry Shore, former Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park, and his wife, Ann, had believed...until one day, years later, two new dinosaurs, craftier than any the Earth had ever seen, appeared. One of them was benevolent, a friend to mankind, and the other was not. It was blood-thirsty, eerily intelligent, and unbelievably vengeful. This dinosaur wouldn’t be so easy to kill.

A construction site cave-in uncovers an amazing prehistoric find—a cluster of dinosaur skeletons, all complete and intact. But it also unlocks an ominous secret—an alien device, planted on Earth 120 million years ago, before man even existed. What was its purpose, and why was it never activated? The answers, like the machine itself, have been buried by time. Until now. When the apparatus is accidentally triggered the world learns with horror its true function, which would mean the end of all life on the planet. No one has a clue how to stop it, except for three unlikely people: a ...

THE SECOND IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIES OF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVING FROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES T I M E S A F A R I, I N C. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT. The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted. Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs but the hunt went terrible wrong, sending ripples of change throughout the timestream. DINOSAUR PLANET Eckels, a psychotic time-traveler, has shot a dinosaur and meddled with history, destroying the future and trapping himself in the ...