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-Serpents

4 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Sea-Serpents

"Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in…

Sea-Serpents: Cuvier

The beautiful cast (Fig. 67) at South Kensington (Fossil Reptile Gallery III., Wall-case 1) was presented to Dr. Mantell by Baron Cuvier in…

Sea-Serpents: Leiodon

In 1831 a portion of a lower jaw with large conical teeth was discovered in the Chalk near Norwich. But these teeth were not quite similar…

Sea-Serpents: Williston

According to Dr. S. W. Williston, who has, of late years, discovered and described most valuable specimens of Mosasauroid reptiles…

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