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Excerpt from Animals of the Past: An Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient WorldMethods of interrogating Nature, 11, thickness of sedimentary rocks, 12, earliest traces of life, 13, early vertebrates difficult of preservation, 13, armored fishes, 14, abundance of early fishes, 15, destruction of fish, 16, carboniferous sharks, 19, known mostly from teeth and spines, 19, references, 21.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hund...

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Excerpt from Animals Before Man in North America: Their Lives and TimesThe preference has naturally been given to the larger animals. As a rule, not only do we know them better, but they are likely to be more impressive and interesting than their small associates. Just as today the larger animals give us our clearest impressions of the difier ences between the animals of different parts of the earth, so do they mark most plainly the distinctio...

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Excerpt from Notes on the Osteology and Relationship of the Fossil Birds of the Genera Hesperornis Hargeria Baptornis and DiatrymaThis would throw the center of effort farther forward in the old diving birds than in modern species, and mav be due to the use of the muscles either while capturing fish or in moving about on land.The synsacrum seems to have comprised ten vertebrae, but this is not certain, the first of which belongs to the dorsal ...

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Excerpt from Guide to the Present Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural History: For Use During the Rearrangement of the CollectionsFossil Reptiles and Fishes Fourth Floor, Hall 11: Gems and Precious Stones. Fourth Floor, Hall 2: Geology, Historical. Fourth Floor, Hall 11: Gorillas Second Floor, Hall 11: Horse, Evolution of Fourth Floor, Hall 10: Horse, Modern Fourth Floor: Incas Third Floor, Hall 2: Indian Groups First Floor, Hal...

Excerpt from Guide to the Present Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural History: For Use During the Rearrangement of the CollectionsFossil Reptiles and Fishes Fourth Floor, Hall 11: Gems and Precious Stones. Fourth Floor, Hall 2: Geology, Historical. Fourth Floor, Hall 11: Gorillas Second Floor, Hall 11: Horse, Evolution of Fourth Floor, Hall 10: Horse, Modern Fourth Floor: Incas Third Floor, Hall 2: Indian Groups First Floor, Hal...

Excerpt from General Guide to the Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural HistoryOn the left is a large slab of fossiliferous limestone from Kelleys Island in Lake Erie near Sandusky, whose surface has been smoothed, Glacial grooved and scratched by the stones and sand in the Grooves bottom Of the vast moving ice Sheet or glacier that covered the northeastern part Of North America during the Glacial Epoch.The Information Bureau and ...

Excerpt from Animals of the Past: An Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient World The Mosasaurs, 4-9, history of the first known Mosasaur, 50 jaws of reptiles, 53, extinction of Mosasaurs, 55, the sea serpent, 56, Zeuglodon, 58, its habits, 59, Koch's Hydrat chus, 61 bones collected by Mr. Schnobert, 63, abundance of sharks, 64, the great Carcharodon, 65 arrangement of sharks' teeth, 67, references, 68. About the Publisher Forgotte...

Excerpt from Animals Before Man in North America: Their Lives and Times The preference has naturally been given to the larger animals. As a rule, not only do we know them better, but they are likely to be more impressive and interesting than their small associates. Just as today the larger animals give us our clearest impressions of the difier ences between the animals of different parts of the earth, so do they mark most plainly the distinct...