You are in the deserts of Mongolia, Asia, 90 million years ago.

The red dust of the arid landscape stung your eyes as you crouched behind a weathered sandstone outcrop. The heavy, absolute silence over the desert was suddenly broken by a low, guttural hiss, followed by the soft thud-thud of heavy, three-toed feet on dry earth.

You froze. About thirty feet away, emerging from a cluster of withered, Cretaceous-era shrubs, was an Alectrosaurus.

It may not be its mighty cousin T. rex; it was smaller, leaner, maybe twenty feet long from snout to tail, built for speed rather than raw power. Its scales were a camouflage of mottled beige and dull orange, blending perfectly with the wasteland. The creature paused, raising its small, skull-like head, searching. Its yellow, bird-like eyes seemed to lock onto the air just above your hiding spot, searching for movement…