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Prologue

the possibility of injury! She reared back and roared twice as
a warning to nearby predators to stay away while she and her
brood fed on the body. Then she waited and listened. When
no other dinosaur roared back to challenge her, she tore into
the carcass with gusto, followed by her young.
The T-rex and her offspring never noticed the alien scien-
tists who were hovering nearby, waiting patiently for this
moment before they activated the platform. The hungry rexes
were too busy feasting to pay attention to the rising drone
of the generator that was buried underneath them as it
recharged the teleporter. And when they rematerialized on a
similar platform in the middle of a habitat that recreated
their environment on Earth, they had no idea they were on a
different planet.
The transition had been seamless, and it was a tribute to
the technological prowess of this otherworldly race that the
many prehistoric animals they had collected for study thrived
in their new environment, light years from Earth. But tech-
nology cannot ensure the survival of a society and even the
most advanced civilizations can encounter challenges that
technology cannot overcome.
So it happened that when this alien civilization observed a
cluster of meteors heading toward their world eons after they
began their exploration of infant Earth, they decided that the
safest course was to leave their home and relocate to another
planet. And since rebuilding their civilization required every
available resource, they reluctantly left behind the creatures
they had gathered for study with the intention of rebuilding
their collection from scratch on a new world.

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