Hunting Twiggersaurus

Robert Twigger

Dinosaurs hold a firm grip over the imagination for kids and adults alike - they are symbols of a lost world; reminders of our own vulnerability on this planet. But they have yet to be submitted to the kind of literary/travel/slightly offbeat treatment that Robert Twigger is proposing here: basically the search for a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur. Given the advent of modern technology and the shrinking world it seems over 50% of all T-Rex's discovered have been found in the last fifteen years and the boundary between amateur and professional in the dinosaur-hunting world has become blurred. These days you can pick up parts of your average T-Rex on E-bay. In the light of this Twigger heads off to North America armed with a metal detector and the received wisdom of a handful of museum curators and scientists . . .>