Extinct Monsters And Creatures of Other Days
Subtitle: A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781417974610
Subjects: Zoology & animal sciences; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Zoology - General
First sentence: LET us suppose we are visiting a geological museum for the first time, passing along from one department to another with ever-increasing wonder-now admiring the beautiful polished marbles from Devonshire, with their delicate corals, or the wonderful fishes from the Old Red Sandstone, with their plates of enamel; now the delicate shells and ammonites from the Lias or Oolites, with their pearly lustre still preserved; now the white fresh-looking shells from the Isle of Wight; now the ponderous bones and big teeth of ancient monsters from the Wealden beds of Sussex.