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The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy is a series of novels written by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. [1] The books depict an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs, among various other creatures from the late Cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years prior to the story.
Back onboard the Benthos, the mysterious creatures grow more bold in their attacks, disabling the Prometheus' engines after the sub unearths an immense fossil from the ocean floor. Heath inspects the fossil and discovers it is a subspecies of Kronosaurus , a marine reptile that has escaped extinction and the same creatures that are attacking ...
Bob leads Percy and Annabeth to the friendly giant Damasen who heals the two demigods' injuries, but is convinced that he can't change his fate of forever battling the maeonian drakon despite Percy and Annabeth's belief that the line of the Prophecy of Seven about "foes bare arms to the Doors of Death" refers to the four of them: two demigods ...
Sil's alien form had both full-body animatronics with replaceable arms, heads and torsos, and a body suit. [14] Richard Edlund's Boss Film Studios was hired for over 50 shots of computer-generated imagery, which included one of the earliest forms of motion capture effects. Using a two-foot-high (60 cm) electric puppet that had sensors ...
The creature has a “pavement like covering” on its body, researchers said in a new study. Deep-sea creature — with 5 elongated arms — is a ‘beautiful’ new species. See it
This book opens with one of many stories in the book about creatures of the night. The first story is an old Danish tale. Following is an excerpt: "Within this hall, hearths and torches blazed warm and bright, and drinking horns passed freely among the warriors of the Scylding clan; bards intoned the praises of their chieftain, Hrothgar, the ...
The long arms of a dodomeki reflects the Japanese belief that a person with long arms has a tendency to steal. The bird eyes that grows on the dodomeki's arm are a reference to the Japanese dōsen , a copper coin with a hole in the middle of it that's commonly known as the chōmoku (Bird's eye).
Ningyo (人魚, "human fish"), as the name suggests, is a creature with both human and fish-like features, described in various pieces of Japanese literature. Though often translated as "mermaid", the term is technically not gender-specific and may include the "mermen". The literal translation "human-fish" has also been applied.