

It is 1878 and Captain John Paley Dawkins, an English amateur palaeontologist, has staked his meager inheritance upon an expedition to find a pterodactyl, set up by geologist Sheldon Prescott. Wary of Prescott's willful daughter Lilian, they are soon forced together in a life-threatening...

Captain John Paley Dawkins, an English amateur palaeontologist, has staked his meagre inheritance upon an expedition set up by the enigmatic geologist Sheldon Prescott. He is at first wary of Prescott's intelligent, wilful and spoiled daughter Lilian, but they are soon forced...