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 Great Sea-Lizards

4 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

The Great Sea-Lizards

1821. In a later paper (1824) he gave a restoration of the entire skeleton of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus; and the accuracy of that…

The Great Sea-Lizards: History

SKELETON OF YOUNG PLESIOSAUR, FROM OXFORD CLAY, NEAR PETERBOROUGH. Natural History Museum, London, HARE of resemblance, in the backbone…

The Great Sea-Lizards: Plesiosaurus

Plate V. is from a photograph of a Plesiosaurus skeleton set up as if it were that of a living animal in the Natural History Museum, in…

The Great Sea-Lizards: Ichthyosaurus

From the long neck and head, situated so far away from the paddles, as well as for other reasons, it may be concluded that this creature…

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