Mythical Monsters

Charles Gould, geological surveyor of Tasmania, spent 400 pages and 93 engravings arguing that dragons, sea-serpents and unicorns are not inventions but memories — real animals, seen, feared, and distorted by time.

Extinction of Species

23 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

Extinction of Species

In reviewing the past succession of different forms of ancient life upon the globe, we are reminded of a series of dissolving views, in…

Extinction of Species: Darwin

The Tsetse fly extirpates all horses, dogs, and cattle, from certain districts of South Africa, and a representative species in Paraguay is…

Extinction of Species: Mammoth

FIG. 9. THE MAMMOTH. (After Jukes.) Extinct Post Tertiary Mammalia.

Extinction of Species: Figuier

FIG. 10.-TOOTH OF THE MAMMOTH. (After Figuier.) It seems probable that discoveries of mammoth tusks formed in part the basis for the story…

Extinction of Species: Dawkins

Mr. Boyd Dawkins, in a very exhaustive memoir on this animal, quotes an interesting notice of its fossil ivory having * The Natural History…

Extinction of Species: Europe

Mr. Dawkins, reviewing all the discoveries, considers that its range, at various periods, extended over the whole of Northern Europe, and…

Extinction of Species: Rhinoceros

Mr. Dawkins shows it to have been pre-glacial, glacial, and post-glacial in Britain and in Europe, and, from its relation to the…

Extinction of Species: Palæolithic

The investigation, * made by M. E. Lartet in 1860, of the contents of the Grotto of Aurignac, in the department of the Haute Garonne, from…

Extinction of Species: Pleistocene

In the Pleistocene deposits at Würzburg, in Franconia, * Lyell, Antiquity of Man, p. 185, 2nd edit., 1863. a human finger-bone occurs with…

Extinction of Species: Ursus

THE CAVE-BEAR, Ursus spelœus, of Rosenmüller. The appearance of this species has been preserved to us in the drawing by Palæolithic man…

Extinction of Species: Mastodon

THE MASTODON. - The generic title Mastodon has been applied to a number of species allied to the elephants, but distinguished from them by…

Extinction of Species: Pliocene

The M. arvernensis may be considered as a characteristic Pliocene species in Italy, France, and Europe generally. In Britain it occurs in…

Extinction of Species: Owen

THE IRISH ELK. - The species (Megaceros hibernicus), commonly but erroneously called the Irish Elk, was, as professor Owen* has pointed…

Extinction of Species: Britain

Although its remains have been found most abundantly in Ireland, it was widely distributed over Britain and middle Europe. It has been…

Extinction of Species: Quaternary

Notable Quaternary forms (now extinct) on the American continent are the gigantic sloth-like animals Megatherium, which reached eighteen…

Extinction of Species: African

The HIPPOPOTAMUS.-The Hippopotamus major, now considered identical with the larger of the two African species- H. amphibia, has been found…

Extinction of Species: Mauritius

As examples of total extinction in late years, we may mention the dodo, the solitaire, and species allied to them, in the islands of…

Extinction of Species: Rhytina

FIG. 17. RHYTINA STELLERI. (After J. Fr. Brandt.) Steller's Sea-cow (Rhytina Stelleri of Cuvier) was a mammal allied to the Manatees and…

Extinction of Species: Wales

Of local extinction we may note in our own island the cases of the beaver, the bear, the wolf, the wild cattle, the elk, the wild boar, the…

Extinction of Species: Australia

In South Africa, elephants and all other large game are being steadily exterminated within the several colonies. In Australia, we find that…

Extinction of Species: Australian

The introduction of the Dingo, by the Australian blacks in their southward migration, is supposed to have caused the extinction of the…

Extinction of Species: China

We learn from incidental passages in the Bamboo Books* that the rhinoceros, which is now unknown in China, formerly extended throughout…

Extinction of Species: Kingsmill

Mr. Kingsmill even suggests that the species referred to were the mammoth and the Siberian rhinoceros (R. tichorhinus). M. Chabas*…

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