The Tunnel

Are you ready for the most exciting adventure in your life?Simone Sullivan and James Jackson are long-time friends, they share the same passion for dinosaurs and fossil hunting. During a fossil dig they come across an incredible world with real live dinosaurs. But that is only the beginning of their amazing adventures. James's grandma will show him a way to be wherever he wants as long as he strongly wishes for it. From that moment onwards, the two companions travel back in time and have incredible adventures in a land of terrific dinosaurs.

The sun shone brightly on the wide valley below, which was covered with tall trees, giant ferns, and a variety of rivers that looked from the sky like enormous winding snakes, running through the forests. Two volcanoes could be seen, one at each end of the valley, and both had plumes of smoke rising from their craters. Large bird-like creatures soared lazily overhead. They had wide, leathery wings, and long, pointy beaks. It was unusually warm for this time of year, but the temperature had been slowly increasing for decades now, and there had been an increase in volcanic activity. Not that anybody noticed, of course. One of the volcanoes rumbled, and spat fire into the sky, as if on cue. Closer to the volcanoes, low clouds of toxic gases were being released from the smoking craters, and it was slowly changing the environment, and spreading further and further over time. The sulphurous fumes were creating a hazardous environment for the creatures that lived here.

Three Australovenators (aw-strah-low-ven-ah-tors) sprinted down the hill, running in a line abreast. These fast megaraptors were thought to have been Australia's largest predators, until a new dinosaur, called a "Lightning Claw" had been found in New South Wales, near Lightning Ridge. These three hunters, however, were focused on a herd of Muttaburrasaurus, grazing peacefully on the valley floor on ferns, and small trees. These passive herbivores, a type of Ornithopod ("bird foot" dinosaurs), had no natural defence against what was powering towards them. They had two large hind legs, with two smaller forelegs. They could stand and walk on their rear legs, but they preferred to use all four when moving at anything faster than grazing speed. They had a long thick tail, and a medium length snout at the end of a long, narrow face. These were the cows of Cretaceous Australia.

Coming at them down the hill, were three of the fastest, and deadliest creatures ever to have roamed the land in Cretaceous Australia. They had powerful hind legs, with shorter (but not so short as to be almost useless, like the T-rex) forearms, with long and incredibly sharp claws and talons. A powerful tail helped propel them down the hill, and their face and head looked like they were designed to strike fear into any living creature that had the misfortune of meeting them. Australovenator looked a lot like the Velociraptor from ...