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.

How Extinct Monsters Are Preserved

2 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

How Extinct Monsters Are Preserved

"Geology, beyond almost every other science, offers fields of research adapted to all capacities and to every condition and circumstance of…

How Extinct Monsters Are Preserved: Already

And lastly, it must ever be borne in mind that, as yet, our knowledge of the stratified rocks of the earth's crust is very limited. In…

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