A fascinating former world existed in Australia between 100 million and 120 million years ago. The way we have come to know about this lost world - so different from any that exists on earth today - makes for an enthralling story.
Australia was once far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Over the past two decades, scientists have determined that dinosaurs lived in this polar region. Thomas H Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who played crucial roles in this discovery, describe their efforts to collect the fossils indispensable to our knowledge of this realm. They take us inside the laboratories where scientists worked to unlock the secrets of these fossils and to reconstruct the environment in which these dinosaurs lived. And they report on the activities of hundreds of other individuals who contributed to this research. 'Dinosaurs of Darkness' is an absorbing, personal account of the way scientific research is actually conducted and how hard it is to mine the knowledge of the remarkable life of the past.
