>>Sounds like the turbocharged dinosaur-like creatures in Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes's book 'The Legacy of Heorot' a 1987 sci-fi novel with some curious similarities to the later (1990) Michael Crichton book 'Jurassic Park'. Not only that, it was a better book than Jurassic Park IMO. << Dinosaurs on _speed_, wouldn't that be an unplesent surprise. Dan