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.

Giant Sloths and Armadillos

9 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Giant Sloths and Armadillos

"Injecta monstris terra dolet suis."

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Woodbine

Later on, however, the zeal and energy of Sir Woodbine Parish, his late Majesty's chargé-d'affaires at Buenos Ayres, 1 Greek-megas, great…

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: History

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Kensington

On looking at the model so skilfully set up at South Kensington, and especially at the front part of the skull, it will be seen that the…

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Megatherium

A bony shield (or carapace) of a great armadillo was found with one of the specimens described by Mr. Clift, and Buckland and others…

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Argentine

There can now be no doubt that in the southern part of South America the giant sloths survived until the human period; for in the Argentine…

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Pampas

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Glyptodonts

We now pass on to the old gigantic representative of the armadillo, the Glyptodon. To the eye it resembles more or less an armadillo, and…

Giant Sloths and Armadillos: Buenos

Plate LII. represents Glyptodon clavipes (Owen) from the Pleistocene deposits of Buenos Ayres; but the reader will gain a much better idea…

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