Mythical Monsters: eBook EditionJazzybee Verlag, 2013 M12 10 - 488 páginas An exploration into all beasts fabled, fabricated, fantastical, and fanciful, from across the world, including the Chinese and Japanese Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, and the spate of Sea Serpents sighted off the 19th century New England coast. |
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... gigantic reptilian forms lately discovered by Marsh among the deposits of Colorado and Texas. Surely a profound acquaintance with the different branches of natural history should render a man credulous rather than incredulous, for there ...
... gigantic reptilian forms lately discovered by Marsh among the deposits of Colorado and Texas. Surely a profound acquaintance with the different branches of natural history should render a man credulous rather than incredulous, for there ...
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... gigantic serpents, dragons, frightful beasts of prey, supernatural beings, and myths of all kinds, appear to have been carried into all corners of the world with as much fidelity as the sacred Ark of the Israelites, acquiring a moulding ...
... gigantic serpents, dragons, frightful beasts of prey, supernatural beings, and myths of all kinds, appear to have been carried into all corners of the world with as much fidelity as the sacred Ark of the Israelites, acquiring a moulding ...
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... gigantic proportions of nearly twentyfive feet for the same measurements; and although these were devoid of teeth (thus approaching the class Ayes still more closely), they could hardly fail, from their magnitude and powers of flight ...
... gigantic proportions of nearly twentyfive feet for the same measurements; and although these were devoid of teeth (thus approaching the class Ayes still more closely), they could hardly fail, from their magnitude and powers of flight ...
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... gigantic size. The Titanosaurus montanus, believed to have been herbivorous, is estimated to have reached fifty or sixty feet in length; while other Dinosaurians of still more gigantic proportions, from the Jurassic beds of the Rocky ...
... gigantic size. The Titanosaurus montanus, believed to have been herbivorous, is estimated to have reached fifty or sixty feet in length; while other Dinosaurians of still more gigantic proportions, from the Jurassic beds of the Rocky ...
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... have originated the myths, current among the Indians of South America, of a gigantic tunnelling or burrowing creature, incapable of supporting the light of day. CHAPTER II. EXTINCTION OF SPECIES. IN reviewing the past succession.
... have originated the myths, current among the Indians of South America, of a gigantic tunnelling or burrowing creature, incapable of supporting the light of day. CHAPTER II. EXTINCTION OF SPECIES. IN reviewing the past succession.
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