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.

Ancient Salamanders

6 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Ancient Salamanders

"Slowly moves the march of ages, Slowly grows the forest-king, Slowly to perfection cometh Every great and glorious thing."

Ancient Salamanders: English

To find the oldest known amphibian we must go back as far as those "dark ages" when a large portion of the surface of what is now Europe…

Ancient Salamanders: Labyrinthodonts

But, if these facts tend to connect the Labyrinthodonts with fishes below, there are others which tend to connect them with the reptiles…

Ancient Salamanders: Mastodonsaurus

Turning to their skulls, there is one feature that is quite peculiar to the group and rarely seen in reptiles, living or extinct, viz. that…

Ancient Salamanders: Archegosaurus

Archegosaurus. by Dr. Fritsch, have been very well preserved in those deposits of the Permian age, so that he was able to recognise in…

Ancient Salamanders: Texas

Cricotus is an American genus described by Professor Cope, from the Permian strata of Texas. The skull and some of the scales belonging to…

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