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Anomalous Reptiles
9 pages
Flying Dragons
4 pages
Ancient Birds
5 pages
The Story of the Elephants
6 pages
Whales and Wombats, Etc
6 pages
How Extinct Monsters Are Preserved
2 pages
Footprints on the Sands of Time
11 pages
Sea-Scorpions
3 pages
The Great Fish-Lizards
5 pages
The Great Sea-Lizards and Their Allies
1 page
The Great Sea-Lizards
4 pages
Ancient Salamanders
6 pages
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Highlights
The Great Fish-Lizards
"Berossus, the Chaldæan saith: A time was when the universe was darkness and water, wherein certain animals of frightful and…
Anomalous Reptiles (Endeavour to complete)
"In the endeavour to complete the Natural History of any class of animals, the mind seeks to penetrate the mystery of its origin…
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…
The Story of the Elephants (Yes where the huntsman winds)
"Yes, where the huntsman winds his matin horn, And the couched hare beneath the covert trembles; Where shepherds tend their…
The Dragons of Old Time-Dinosaurs
"What we know is but little; what we do not know is immense."-LA PLACE.
Armoured Dinosaurs and the Iguanodon
DINOSAURS (continued) "Everything in Nature is engaged in writing its own history: the planet and the pebble are attended by…