Extinct Monsters And Creatures Of Other Days
Subtitle: A Popular Account Of Some Of The Larger Forms Of Ancient Animal Life
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781432621827
Subjects: Science / Zoology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science; Science/Mathematics
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.