Introduction

The introduction to Raptor Chronicles that I wrote in grade 9.

Travel back in time with me for a while, back to the Mesozoic, the world would seem very unfamiliar to you but it is where I call home. As often as I can I come here, through books, artwork and my imagination. It’s a serine place, a beautiful virgin world, untainted, humans have yet to evolve, mammals have yet to come to power. The earth is ruled by reptiles; land air and sea. The most iconic of them all the Dinosaurs.

Many tribes of the great reptiles have dominated these parts over the eons; Coelophysids in the Triassic, Allosaurs in the Jurassic, but the greatest of all are about to take center stage; the Tyrannosaurs.

But these stories belong to none of these tyrants, but to a group of dinosaurs called the Maniraptorans-the raptors.

These creatures may not seem like much; only one known species (Therizinosaurus cheloniformis) exceeds 10 meters in length, but their story holds more importance than all of the giants that we admire for their size and ferocity. These small creatures and ones like them would one day help us unravel the true nature of the beasts, and the origins of the only dinosaurs left alive, Birds.

This book will follow certain events in specific raptor species lives. We shall visit the early Cretaceous to meet the Utahraptor, Deinonychus, Sinornithosaurus and the minute Microraptor gui. Then we shall make a quick stop to middle Cretaceous Argentina to meet Buitreraptor gonzalesorummangus. Finally we shall travel forward to the late Cretaceous to visit the Dromaeosaurus, Tsaagan, Atrociraptor, Bambiraptor, Saurornitholestes and the infamous Velociraptor. I shall include other stories about similar Dinosaurs; The Oviraptorosauria: Caudipteryx, Incisivosaurus, colossal Gigantoraptor, Rinchenia, Khaan, Nemegtoaia Conchoraptor, Citipati and the Canadian Chirostenotes pergracilis. The Troodontidae: Troodon, Saurornithoides, Sinusonasus, Byronosaurus and Mei long. The Therizinosaurs: Falcarius, Beipiaosaurus, Nothronychus, Segnosaurus and Therizinosaurus.  The Alvarezsauridae: little insect eating Shuvuuia and Mononykus, and lastly, the arboreal Epidendrosaurus.  

The first story follows the events in the life of one particular raptor-she isn’t impressively large or strong, but she is the smartest dinosaur around.

This story is about a gruesome death.

Reviews

[Felecia]

Ooooooooooooooooo must read more XD