I hope to return to the discussion of missing links, here. It's not terribly deep---Conan Doyle is mostly interested in setting up dangers---but it has given me and a friend a different spin on the Lost World. It's fair to say the book could use some more dinosaurs, and amusing to see where they are described inaccurately, as it reminds us of how studies have progressed. I obtained this while looking for more Lost World discussion (there isn't much), courtesy Cold Crash Pictures Commentary: "A few months ago, eodromaeus was named (in a paper co-authored by Paul Soreno), and this guy appears to be even more primitive than eoraptor(previously thought of as the first dinosaur). In fact, eoraptor is now being interpreted by some scientists to represent an early sauropodomorph -- the earliest long-neck -- due to the shape of its skull and the distinctive first digit." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eodromaeus So, as you can see, paleontology's canon continues to ev...