Grant and Sattler receive a fax from the Tropical Diseases Center. When it is described on the phone, they initially jump to the conclusion that the lizard carcass is a basilisk lizard. The fax shows an x-ray that they immediately identify as a procompsognathus, which is a dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago. They ponder the possibility that it is a hoax, but while they are looking at the fax, they receive a call from Hammond, who is a jovial but aggressive old man. He complains of the EPA and learns from Dr. Grant about the lizard carcass discovery and Grant's opinion of what it is. Hammond acts.....
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