Una spedizione americana nella Nuova Guinea scopre una strana popolazione, composta da ominidi regrediti ad uno stato belluino, ma innocui e pacifici. Il protagonista, avendo difficoltà a memorizzare il lunghissimo nome latino con cui gli studiosi li annotano, li battezza Tropis. Ma qualcuno ha già in mente di sfruttare i piccoli esseri come operai in miniera. Quando uno dei Tropis sembra essere stato assassinato, il seguente processo si concentra sulla questione se i Tropis siano una forma di umani o animali.
In the 1930s a trio of unlikely adventurers set off to find a heretofore uncharted land. It has existed in stories and myths for centuries and is believed to be somewhere around the North Pole. Hounded by an overambitious agent of the USSR, the explorers end up finding much more than they ever expected.
Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by Darwin and is pondering especially on the idea that there is a "missing link." One night he dreams that he is an explorer and that he has just landed upon a foreign shore; he secures the aid of a mahout and an elephant to move his tent and belongings to the jungle, where he will take up the study of trying to find the "missing link."
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.
Dopo un devastante incidente in barca, un gruppo di amici rimane bloccato su un'isola inesplorata dove incontra un'antica tribù di creature umanoidi.
Dr Michael O'Brien is a celebrated palaeoanthropologist, but his recently-published book has drawn ridicule from academics while being hailed by crazy conspiracy theorists. With his party-animal sister Alyssa, and her latest boyfriend Dante, he retreats to a rural outback where he obsessively pursues the unorthodox research that led his colleagues to shun him. Here, he makes a mind-blowing discovery that may rescue his career. Trapped in isolation, four flawed characters grapple with their awesome responsibilities and the delusional idea that we humans are the master species.