The Living Past

In Aurthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Lost World’, explorers in South America discover tracks of what would appear to be a bird far larger than an ostrich, or maybe two different but enormous animals. But Professor Challenger thinks back to startling discoveries in Sussex some years before, and realises that the tracks belong to a dinosaur.

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