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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...

Journey to a time when sea monsters roamed an ocean in the middle of America.

Introduces the ichthyosaur, or fish lizard, a reptile that swam like a fish, which first appeared during the Triassic period 250 million years ago.