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.

The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs

14 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

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…

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