false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175710213m/548406.jpg 117710 10 A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers.  She is an intelligent killer...<br><br>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 unforgettable heroine.  Her name is Raptor Red, and she is a female Raptor dinosaur.<br><br>Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this exciting tale.  From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daring migration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, <i>Raptor Red</i> combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth. 986300 1995 Raptor Red total:309|5:104|4:108|3:80|2:16|1:1| 309 1225 384 46 4 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 11:59:19 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 17:03:59 -0700 2009 "The time is a hundred and twenty million years ago. On the flat, featureless floodplains that were central Utah, an evolutionary event is about to occur that will shock the ecological community of dinosaurs. This event is the arrival of a new superpredator."

<center>- Rap...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 01:54:35 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 01:51:25 -0700 2009 Lots of suspension of disbelief in this one. It's Watership Down with dinosaurs - social structures, thoughts, motivations and all. It took me a while to get past "We can't possibly know that!" and accept it as a work of pure fiction.

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