The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs
"What we know is but little; what we do not know is immense."-LA PLACE.
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Owen
The late Sir Richard Owen, in his great work on British Fossil Reptiles, made some valuable remarks on the probable habits of Dinosaurs…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Megalosaurus
To begin with Megalosaurus. In the year 1824 that keen observer and original thinker, the Rev. Dr. Buckland, described to the Geological…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Ceratosaurus
The late Professor Marsh had the good fortune to discover a very peculiar new form of carnivorous Dinosaur, to which he gave the name…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Dinosaur
Another remarkably bird-like form of Dinosaur, also found by Professor Osborn at Como Bluffs, is the Ornitholestes, an active little…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Mantell
Dr. G. A. Mantell says, "Fossils have been eloquently and appropriately termed Medals of Creation," and the eloquent passage by which those…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Marsh
One of the oldest of the Dinosaurs seems to be the Anchisaurus ¹ of Marsh, of which he has made a restoration of the skeleton, as shown in…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Anchisaurus
With the more complete materials now in his possession, Professor Marsh was enabled to make the restoration of the skeleton of the genus…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Triassic
One other carnivorous Dinosaur, named Ammosaurus by Professor Marsh, and allied to the one above described, is also partly known in the…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Atlantosaurus
In Plate XVIII. we have endeavoured to give some idea of a huge thigh-bone (femur) belonging to the truly gigantic Dinosaur called…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Brontosaurus
DRAGONS OF OLD TIME way as those of Brontosaurus. The fore limbs were large, as in the latter animal; and the extremities of the limbs were…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Jurassic
The remains of this interesting Dinosaur (Brontosaurus), which in several ways differs from other members of the "lizard-footed" group…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Diplodocus
DRAGONS OF OLD TIME which arrested the floating carcases (more or less decomposed) which had slowly drifted down the stream towards it…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs: Carnegie
C of the skeleton of this truly wonderful giant reptile, as shown in Plate XXI. It is a cast in plaster-of-Paris-the gift of Mr. Andrew…