Raptor Red

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Raptor Red: A Novel
Author: Bakker, Robert T.
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Time Period: Prehistory
Time Frame: 120,000,000 BCE
Geographic Area: North America
Country: United States
Topics: Cretaceous Period, Utahraptor, Dinosaurs
Genre: Fiction
Reading Age: Young Adult, Adult
Format: Novel
Published: 1996


World History > Prehistory > Cretaceous Period

A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. She is an intelligent killer...

So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and the eyes belong to an unforgettable heroine. Her name is Raptor Red, and she is a female Raptor dinosaur.

Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this exciting tale. From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daring migration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, Raptor Red combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth.

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