 We are already acquainted with eight species of this genus, varying from the size of a snipe to that of a cormorant. In external form these animals somewhat resemble our modern bats and vampires : most of them had the nose elongated, like the snout of...  The Quarterly Review - Página 51editado por - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1841 - 488 páginas
...the crocodile, and furnished with not less than sixty sharp conical teeth. Their eyes were of great size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. From...enabled to creep or climb, or suspend itself from trees. It is probable that they had the power of swimming, which is so common in reptiles, and now possessed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 páginas
...of a cormorant. In external form these animals somewhat resemble our modern bats and vampires : most of them had the nose elongated, like the snout of...fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved flaw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 páginas
...of a cormorant. In external form these animals somewhat resemble our modern bats and vampires : most of them had the nose elongated, like the snout of a crocodile, arid armed with conical teeth. Their eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 páginas
...a Cormorant.* In external form, these animals somewhat resemble our modern Bats and Vampires: most of them had the nose elongated, like the snout of...enabled to creep or climb, or suspend itself from trees. It is probable also that the Pterodactyles had the power of swimming, which is so common in reptiles,... | |
 | 1837 - 756 páginas
...with a snout elongated like the crocodile, and armed with conical teeth : the eyes of enormous size enabling them to fly by night. From their wings projected fingers terminated by long hooks. It is also probable that the pterodactyle had the power of swimming, which is now possessed by the... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - 1838 - 756 páginas
...According to Dr. Buckland, in their external form they somewhat resembled the modern bats, but most of them had the nose elongated like the snout of a crocodile ; they were armed with conical teeth, their eyes were of enormous size, enabling them to fly by night.... | |
 | William Buckland - 1841 - 488 páginas
...a Cormorant.* In external form, these animals somewhat resemble our modern Bats and Vampires: most of them had the nose elongated, like the snout of...enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. Prom their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - 1841 - 564 páginas
...approached that of the bat; the fore-arm being elongated, to support a membraneous wing, from which projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of that winged mammalian (140). It had the small skull observable in reptiles, joined to a neck resembling... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - 1841 - 560 páginas
...approached that of the bat; the fore-arm being elongated, to support a membraneous wing, from which projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of that winged mammalian (140). It had the small skull observable in reptiles, joined to a neck resembling... | |
 | William Chambers - 1842 - 438 páginas
...probably most resembled a vampire bat ; but in most of the species, the snout was elongated like that of a crocodile, and armed with conical teeth. Their...claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed powerful members, with which the animals were enabled to climb, or creep, or suspend themselves from... | |
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