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.

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon

11 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon

DINOSAURS (continued) "Everything in Nature is engaged in writing its own history: the planet and the pebble are attended by their shadows…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Mantell

There was one man, however, who foresaw the importance of Mantell's discovery, and that was Dr. Wollaston. This distinguished philosopher…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Iguanodon

Dr. Mantell also was the first to prove, from the nature of the Wealden strata, that they were deposited in or near the estuary of a mighty…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Dinosaurs

Illustration lent by H. R. Knipe (from Nebula to Man). DINOSAURS feet in length. It will be seen that the fore limbs are small in…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Bernissart

The Bernissart specimens even afford some evidence as to the nature of the integument, or skin, and this supports the idea previously held…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Dinosaur

The late Mr. J. W. Hulke, another English authority on Dinosaurs, described some twenty years ago a very remarkable and slender form of…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Nopcsa

The researches of Baron Nopcsa show that this Dinosaur was provided with a thin but well-developed armour, consisting of large, thin, and…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Stegosaurus

In the year 1877 Professor Marsh described, in the American Journal of Science, a considerable portion of a skeleton of a Stegosaur…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Hylæosaurus

The next monster to be described is one that has fortunately left to posterity a good record of itself, and probably was not very unlike…

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: XXVII

PLATE XXVII. 1. THE LATE PROF. O. C. MARSH. 2. RESTORED SKELETON OF TRICERATOPS.

Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon: Marsh

Professor Marsh thinks that as the head increased in size to 1 There is some doubt about these spines; for they might possibly belong to…

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