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.

Sea-Scorpions

3 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Sea-Scorpions

"And some rin up the hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers like sae many road-makers run daft. They say 'tis…

Sea-Scorpions: Pterygotus

C that they are related to scorpions, and for this reason we call them Sea-scorpions. (See Plate II.) The Crustacea are a very ancient…

Sea-Scorpions: Agassiz

PLATE II. famous work on fossil fishes; and he says that he was much struck with the skill displayed by him in piecing together the…

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