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.

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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. Diplodocus is almost the largest fossil reptile that has yet been discovered. From the illustration showing one of the hind limbs the reader probably surmises that Brontosaurus was a near relation, which is true. Certain bones, and a skull of the former, have been known for the last twenty years, but no one complete skeleton has ever been found. However, through the labours of Marsh, Hatcher, and Dr. W. J. Holland, enough material has been collected to build up a complete model or reconstruction 1 2 FIG. 52. Skull of Diplodocus. 1. Side view. 2. Front view.

HIND-LEG BONES OF DIPLODOCUS, in situ, BONE-CABIN QUARRY,
HIND-LEG BONES OF DIPLODOCUS, in situ, BONE-CABIN QUARRY,

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