You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

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I really enjoyed Maha Khan Phillips’ earlier novel, The Curse of Mohenjodaro. With that book, the author demonstrated that, in spite of being an amateur when it comes to historical scholarship, she ...