Download or read book The Terrible Lizard written by Deborah Cadbury and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1812, the skeleton of a monster was discovered beneath the cliffs of Dorset, setting in motion a collision between science and religion, and among scientists eager to claim supremacy in a brand-new field. For Reverend William Buckland, an eccentric naturalist at Oxford University, the fossil remains of a creature that existed before Noah's flood inspired an attempt to prove the accuracy of the biblical record. Novelist Gideon Mantell also became obsessed with the ancient past, and eminent anatomist Richard Owen soon entered the fray, claiming credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. In a fast-paced narrative, Terrible Lizard re-creates the bitter feud between Mantell and Owen. Revealing a strange, awesome prehistoric era, their struggle set the stage for Darwin's shattering theories -- and for controversies that still rage today.
Download or read book Terrible Lizard TPB written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touching story of a girl and her T-Rex… with a healthy dose of collateral damage and monster conflict on the side. When the scientists of Cosmos Labs punch a hole through time and space, they pull a ferocious dinosaur into the present.The dinosaur imprints on teenage Jessica, proving to be more mischievous than vicious. But he is not alone. Strangely mutated prehistoric monsters begin attacking our world. When "temporal displacement" means "mutant creatures attacking the world while the U.S. military is trying to kill you," what’s a girl and her dinosaur-fighting dinosaur supposed to do?
Download or read book Terrible Lizard 1 written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touching story of a girl and her T-Rex… with a healthy dose of collateral damage and monster conflict on the side. When the scientists of Cosmos Labs punch a hole through time and space, they pull a ferocious dinosaur into the present. The dinosaur imprints on teenage Jessica, proving to be more mischievous than vicious. But he is not alone. Strangely mutated prehistoric monsters begin attacking our world. What’s a girl and her dinosaur-fighting dinosaur supposed to do?
Download or read book Terrible Lizard 3 written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jess and Wrex are on the run... from the military... and from Jess's father! The T-Rex has been targeted for death. If Jesse wants to save her friend, she'll have to find a place to lay low. But where do you hide a massive, rambunctious dinosaur... especially when mutant monsters are chomping at his prehistoric heels?
Download or read book Terrible Lizard 4 written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hear those helicopters? The military is in hot pursuit of Jess and Wrex, and they intend to kill everyone's favorite mischievous dinosaur! But if they take Wrex down, who will stand against all the mutant beasts threatening our way of life? As dozens of portals open across the city, hideous monsters pour into our world! What's a dinosaur to do? Fight or flight?
Download or read book Terrible Lizard written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touching story of a girl and her T-Rex—with a healthy dose of collateral damage and monster conflict on the side! When the scientists of Cosmos Labs punch a hole through time and space, they pull a ferocious dinosaur into the present. The dinosaur imprints on teenage Jessica, proving to be more mischievous than vicious. But he is not alone. Strangely mutated, prehistoric monsters begin attacking our world. When "temporal displacement" means "mutant creatures attacking the world while the U.S. military is trying to kill you," what’s a girl and her dinosaur-fighting dinosaur supposed to do?
Download or read book Terrible Lizard 5 written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military unleashes advanced experimental weaponry. Temporal gateways are opening up all over the city. Hideous mutants are wreaking havoc everywhere you look. And Jess and Wrex are caught right in the middle. With the odds stacked against them, there's every possibility that they will not make it out of this apocalyptic monster-fest alive!
Download or read book Terrible Lizard 2 written by Cullen Bunn and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Temporal displacement" never meant much to Jess. It was just something that her father, the renowned scientist, was tinkering with. That, of course, was before she met Wrex, a massive time-displaced T-Rex with the disposition of a puppy. Now Jess and her new friend are up to their ears in rampaging mutants! To make matters worse, Wrex might be at the center of an anomaly that could mean worldwide chaos and destruction!
Download or read book Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature written by Richard Fallon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920
Download or read book Terrible Lizard written by Doug Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Oak Jones. I spent ten years in the Houston Police Department, three years working beats, and seven glorious years in the Police Dinosaur Unit (PDU). I was one of those kids who loved dinosaurs growing up, and the idea of being paid to work with one sounded like the best job anyone could have, ever. Now that I'm retired from HPD, I wanted to collect some of my war stories. Everybody asks me what it's like working with a police Velociraptor. Let me be blunt: being a dinosaur handler is the most fun and rewarding job you can have in the world. The pay is horrible, and the trials and tribulations are tremendous, but I wouldn't have chosen anything else.So these memoirs are for everyone who's ever wanted to know what it's like being a Velociraptor handler. These are some of my favorite stories from that time. What surprised me more than anything was the amazing bond I made with my Velociraptor, Banshee. It was a relationship unlike any other in my life, and one that I will hold dear for all the rest of my years.You probably know that the word "dinosaur" is Latin for "terrible lizard." I thought that would make a great title for this book because while Banshee was a great working police Velociraptor, he was a terrible lizard...
Download or read book Terrible Lizards written by Wayne Kyle Spitzer and published by Hobb's End Books. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, nuanced, and sometimes twisted dinosaur stories for adults ... From Terrible Lizards: “Don’t thing I haven’t noticed it,” she said, slurring slightly, and added, “I see the way you look at me.” I uncorked the bottle and filled my glass. “You’re a very beautiful woman,” I said—and sat the bottle between us—too hard, I think. “And a talented one. What would you expect?” I watched as she shimmied and did a little pirouette. “And I’m enjoying the conversation—more than you could know. You move beautifully, by the way. Like a cat.” And then she attempted to spin again but only stumbled suddenly and fell smack into my arms; at which we just looked at each other, she with her boozy, breezy smile and me with an apparent moral dilemma: i.e., should I make a pass at her, like I wanted to, or should I just put her into bed and tuck her away safe (as though she were a simpleton, perhaps, or even a child) like, say, John-Boy Walton might. A dilemma I answered by taking her head in my hands and kissing her—heatedly, hot-bloodedly, restlessly—what a friend of mine used to call a “come fuck me” kiss; because she was no child. And I was no John-Boy. And then we went to her room and lay together; drunkenly, sloppily, unspectacularly, and after a while, I dreamed: of lightning permeating everything and rain pounding the roof like nails, like hail; of wives and friends and girlfriends and my father—most of whom I hadn’t seen in years; of small, predatory dinosaurs, deinonychuses, with dark skin and wet backs—who held vigil around our bed like cultists, like priests, and who trilled, softly, faintly, as though they were meditating. As though they were communing.
Download or read book Surprising Facts The Terrible Lizards written by and published by Remedia Publications. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book T Is for Terrible written by Peter McCarty and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyrannosaurus Rex is a terrible dinosaur. But is he really so terrible? With droll humor in both the text and illustrations by the Caldecott Honoree, this story of an introspective dinosaur shows why dinosaurs are the obsession of children everywhere. Full color.
Download or read book Lizard written by Banana Yoshimoto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six short stories by a Japanese woman writer known for her unusual themes. In Blood and Water, a woman abandons the religious commune where she was raised, goes to the big city and finds another idol of worship, a charismatic lover. The story looks at the connection between spiritual and romantic fervor. By the author of Kitchen.
Download or read book Doctor Who Terrible Lizards written by Jonathan Green and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eleventh Doctor and his friends join a group of explorers on a Victorian tramp steamer in the Florida Everglades. The explorers are searching for the Fountain of Youth, but neither they nor the treasure they seek are quite what they seem . . .
Download or read book WTF Evolution written by Mara Grunbaum and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy—like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution: The Irrawaddy Dolphin looks like a prototype that should have been left on the drawing board). Or maybe Evolution was feeling cheeky—a fish with hands? Joke’s on you, Red Handfish! Or maybe Evolution simply goofed up: How else to explain the overgrown teeth of the babirusas that curl backward over their face? Oops. Mara Grunbaum is a very smart, very funny science writer who celebrates the best—or, really, the worst—of Evolution’s blunders. Here are more than 100 outlandish mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, birds, and other creatures whose very existence leaves us shaking our heads and muttering WTF?! Ms. Grunbaum’s especially brilliant stroke is to personify Evolution as a well-meaning but somewhat oblivious experimenter whose conversations with a skeptical narrator are hilarious. For almost 4 billion years, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, and seriously awkward necks. What a comedian!
Download or read book Texas Lizards written by Troy D. Hibbitts and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Texas offers the opportunity to observe lizard diversity like no other part of the country," writes Laurie J. Vitt in the foreword to Texas Lizards. From the moist eastern Piney Woods to the western deserts, lizards can be found in every part of Texas. The state has forty-five native and six naturalized species of lizards, almost half of the 115 species that live in the continental United States. Yet Texas lizards have not received full coverage in regional field guides, and no other guide dedicated solely to the state's lizards has ever been published. Texas Lizards is a complete identification guide to all fifty-one native and established exotic lizard species. It offers detailed species accounts, range maps, and excellent color photographs (including regional, gender, and age variations for many species) to aid field identification. The authors, two of the state's most knowledgeable herpetologists, open the book with a broad overview of lizard natural history, conservation biology, observation, and captive maintenance before providing a key to Texas lizards and accounts of the various lizard families and species. Appendices list species of questionable occurrence in Texas and nonestablished exotic species. Informational resources on Texas lizards, a map of Texas counties, a glossary, a bibliography, and indexes of common and scientific names round out the volume.
