Animals of the Past

Written when 'dinosaur' was still a new word in most homes: the American Museum's own guide to sea-serpents of Kansas, birds with teeth, and why great creatures vanish — with Charles R. Knight's famous restorations.

Rulers Of The Ancient Seas

4 pages in this part of Animals of the Past.

Rulers Of The Ancient Seas

There rolling monsters armed in scaly pride, Flounce in the billows, and dash round the tide.

Rulers Of The Ancient Seas: Plesiosaur

Each had peculiarities of its, or rather their own, for while it is convenient to speak of Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur, there were many…

Rulers Of The Ancient Seas: Mosasaurs

Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaur played their roles of rulers of the seas in the Pageant of the Past and in due time passed off the stage of…

Rulers Of The Ancient Seas: Zeuglodon

Zeuglodon, the yoke-tooth, so named from the shape of its great cutting teeth, was indeed a strange animal, and if we wonder at the…

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