“It truly was part reptile, part primate. I won’t go into the technical details—I’ll leave that to Gregory Kawakita, who I’ve put to work analyzing what data we do have—but it appears that the reptilian genes are what gave the creature its strength, speed, and muscle mass. The primate genes contributed the intelligence and possibly made it endothermic. Warm-blooded. A formidable combination.” “Yeah, sure,” D’Agosta said, laying the cast down. “But what the hell was it?” Frock chuckled. “My dear fellow, we simply don’t have enough data yet to say exactly what it was. And since it appears to
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