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.

Anomalous Reptiles

9 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Anomalous Reptiles (Endeavour to complete)

"In the endeavour to complete the Natural History of any class of animals, the mind seeks to penetrate the mystery of its origin, and, by…

Anomalous Reptiles: Oudenodon

The genus Oudenodon,¹ although it has no teeth, so closely resembles the Dicynodon that it must be included in the same family. The skull…

Anomalous Reptiles: Seeley

From photographs kindly sent by Prof. Amalitzky of Warsaw. since been carried on by the late Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., who had…

Anomalous Reptiles: Tuatara

The creature must have been fully nine feet long when alive. The great width and squareness of the animal is a feature that strikes one at…

Anomalous Reptiles: Amalitzky

By Prof. Amalitzky.

Anomalous Reptiles: Permian

Leaving now the Anomodonts, we pass on to consider another order-the Proterosauria. In America and France the subject has been studied by…

Anomalous Reptiles: History

MODEL OF NAOSAURUS RESTORED. FROM PERMIAN STRATA OF TEXAS. Reproduced by permission of the American Museum of Natural History and Prof…

Anomalous Reptiles: Sandstone

The second example of the reptilian order now under consideration is the Rhynchosaurus, discovered by Dr. O. Ward, in a quarry in the New…

Anomalous Reptiles: Hyperodapedon

The Hyperodapedon was a much larger creature. It was a terrestrial reptile, some six or seven feet long, and does not appear to have been…

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