Synopsis

The thawing ice of an arctic nuclear test releases a carnivorous dinosaur, which then begins a relentless journey southward along the eastern seaboard of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, the sole witness to this improbable event, finds his claims dismissed, even when he identifies the creature as a *rhedosaurus* to the renowned paleontologist Thurgood Elson. Skepticism vanishes entirely when Elson disappears beneath the waves during a bathysphere expedition to locate the beast. Shortly afte