Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days

The book that introduced the public to dinosaurs: sea-lizards, flying dragons, mammoths and the first horse, drawn from life by J. Smit and told by a clergyman-geologist who thought the museum's 'relics of a former world' deserved a storyteller.

Table of Contents

Anomalous Reptiles

9 pages

Flying Dragons

4 pages

Ancient Birds

5 pages

The Story of the Elephants

6 pages

Whales and Wombats, Etc

6 pages

How Extinct Monsters Are Preserved

2 pages

Footprints on the Sands of Time

11 pages

Sea-Scorpions

3 pages

The Great Fish-Lizards

5 pages

The Great Sea-Lizards and Their Allies

1 page

The Great Sea-Lizards

4 pages

Ancient Salamanders

6 pages

The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs

14 pages

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon

11 pages

Sea-Serpents

4 pages

Some Early Mammals and the Story of the Horse

17 pages

Giant Sloths and Armadillos

9 pages

Extinct Whales and Wombats

18 pages

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