This story takes place six years after the Jurassic Park disaster. The book starts out with Ian Malcom giving a speach on his theory of extinction at a place called the Santa Fe Institute. As he's talking, a tall man stands up. His name is Richard Levine. He's a paleontologist, and he is fairly wealthy. He interrupts Ian to tell him that he doesn't think dinosaurs are really extinct. He believes there's a lost world …showed first 75 words of 1352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1352 total…What's that!?" They all gaze in the direction he's pointing, just in time to see a dinosaur the size of a cow cross the road, followed closely by a dinosaur three times that size with a bony frill on its neck and three large horns. Ian calmly explains, "That's a triceratops. A young one, by the looks of it." Everyone watches in amazement as the dinosaurs trundle across the road and disappear into the trees.