Publisher's Synopsis
A former world existed in Australia between 100 million and 120 million years ago. The continent was once far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Scientists have now determined that dinosaurs lived in this polar region. Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who played crucial roles in this discovery, describe in this book their efforts to collect the fossils indispensable to our knowledge of this realm. They take readers inside the laboratories where scientists worked to unlock the secrets of these fossils and to reconstruct the environment in which these dinosaurs lived. They also report on the activities of hundreds of other individuals who contributed to this research.;The journey of scientific adventure they reveal is full of the ambiguities of life: it begins with one destination in ind and ends at another, arrived at by a most roundabout route, down byways and back from dead ends. The book is an account of the way scientific research is actually conducted and how hard it is to mine the knowledge of the remarkable life of the past.
