| National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 pages
...been the most heteroclite, and its characters altogether the most monstrous that have been yet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the... | |
| 1880 - 844 pages
...it united the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length, ruKttmhliug the body oí' a Ferpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of :t chameleon, und the paddles of a whale." The skull is sieall and depressed. From the nostrils backwards,... | |
| Frederic Thomas Hall - 1883 - 448 pages
...hundreds of shark-like teeth.1 The Plesiosaurus " to the head of a lizard, united the teeth of the crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling...quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale.2 The Atlantosaurus, the largest land animal ever known to have existed, was of the same type,... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1884 - 512 pages
...to the head of a lizard ' the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length, resembling the Iwdy of a serpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ril>s of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale.' So far asean be ascertained from the careful examination... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1837 - 654 pages
...lithe, and serpent-like, is peculiarly his own. ' To the head of the lizard,' says Dr. Bucklaiul, ' it united the teeth of a crocodile ; a neck of enormous...proportions of an ordinary quadruped ; the ribs of a cameleon, and ' the paddles of a whale.' Of all the monsters of the ancient world, Cuvier accounts... | |
| 1857 - 380 pages
...discovered amid the ruins of a former world. Owen describes it as having the head of a lizard united to the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length,...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chamelion, and the paddles of a whale. " And such," writes Dr. Buckland, " are the strange combinations... | |
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