Dragon Teeth Michael Crichton HarperCollins Publishers 2017 295 Pages The late, great SF maestro Arthur C Clarke once postulated that many extinct species could possibly be resurrected - once the science of genetics had advanced enough. Michael Crichton took that idea forward with his novel Jurassic Park , later filmed by Steven Spielberg. In Dragon Teeth , his posthumous “other dinosaur novel” Crichton takes a look backwards at the early days of palaeontology in 19 th century America. From beginnings in England where certain fossil remains were first recognized as the remains of a long extinct order of giant reptilian creatures, the focus of hunting for dinosaurs had shifted from Europe to North Am...