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.

On Some Remarkable Animal Forms

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On Some Remarkable Animal Forms

THE reasoning upon the question whether dragons, winged snakes, sea-serpents, unicorns, and other so-called fabulous monsters have in…

On Some Remarkable Animal Forms: Triassic

Triassic Nothosaurus دو Simosaurus Pistosaurus Lacertilia. Geckos 7. Ascalabota Trias to Chalk inclusive. recent وو 8. Rhynchocephala 9…

On Some Remarkable Animal Forms: Saurian

We have long been acquainted with numerous gigantic terrestrial Saurians, ranging throughout the whole of the Mesozoic formations, such as…

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