Extinct Whales and Wombats

18 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

"The earth from her deep foundations unites with the celestial orbs that roll through boundless space, to declare the glory and show forth…

The oldest known whale is the curious Zeuglodon, from the marine Eocene strata of Alabama. At Claiborne, according to Sir Charles Lyell…

Squalodon (see Fig. 110) represents another extinct genus of cetaceans, of which very little is known beyond the teeth and skull. It was…

Some of the ancient kangaroos of Australia, that lived during the Pleistocene period, were very much larger than those we see now in that…

The name¹ was given by Owen to part of a lower jaw of the creature, obtained by Sir Thomas Mitchell in the Wellington Caves, New South…

Mr. Kinmont wrote as follows:- "SIR, "Birksgate, Glenosmond, Adelaide, S.A., August 9, 1893. "Some two months ago a discovery of mammoth…

The following is part of the article above alluded to from the South Australian Register :- "Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G., has once more…

The late Professor Newton, of Cambridge, also received a letter from Dr. Stirling, which was published in The Proceedings of the Zoological…

Terrestrial, Alluvial, Estuarine, and Marine Beds of Historic, Iron, Bronze, and Neolithic Ages Peat, Alluvium, Loess Valley Gravels…

DEVONIAN & OLD RED SANDSTONE (5000 ft.) SILURIAN (7000 ft.) ORDOVICIAN (15,000 ft.) CAMBRIAN (12,000 ft.) EOZOIC- ARCHEAN (50,000 ft.) Red…

APPENDIX APPENDIX II THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT MR. HENRY LEE discusses the question of "The Great Sea-Serpent" in an interesting little book…

Wonders of Geology.

Extinct Animals. Sir E. Ray Lankester. 2. WORKS OF REFERENCE A Manual of Palæontology. 2 vols. By Prof. Alleyne Nicholson and R. Lydekker.

A History of British Fossil Reptiles. By Sir R. Owen. 4 vols. (Cassell.) Most of this work has been previously published in the Monographs…

A Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America. By Prof. O. C. Marsh. New Haven, Connecticut, 1880.

Papers by Prof. H. F. Osborn in Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, and in Bulletins of Do.

Pycraft, W. P., 215 Pythonomorphs. See Sea Serpents R Ramphorhynchus, 206 Record, imperfection of the, 22-26 Reptiles, age of, 197. See Age…

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