Sol Kesler

Triassic Turmoil Sol Kesler 9.º edición

The Taklamakan, China?s Death Desert, crusted huge snowmelt water reservoirs. Out of the blue, a powerful earthquake transforms its mounds to marshland. Suddenly, flattened sand dunes lip divergent swamps rimmed by woven mangrove thickets. What dunes had long dominated has become a haven for animal life soon, to appear. Dormant for three hundred million years, Triassic life begins to emerge. And with it a macabre deadly disease. In the Taklamakan palaeontology and medical science team up to fight the scourge. Triassic creatures mysteriously appear. For the first time, homo sapiens sees living Triassican amphibians; leaping giant frogs to lumbering pre-Jurassic reptiles while ?tendrilosis?, the ghoulish disease, takes its toll. There is no cure. The disease spreads globally. Because the scourge cannot be scientifically figured, it cannot be stopped. Have four billion years also mutated earth?s fundamental laws? Have the scientific links between past and present been transformed? There are no answers. Until human intuition intervenes ??