...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...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale.2 The Atlantosaurus, the largest land animal ever known to have...

...and in its characters, the most anomolous which had been discovered amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile,...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." The Plesiosaurns is readily distinguished from the rest of...

...possessed the head and teeth of a crocodile with a neck of extraordinary length.* resembling the hody of a serpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon and the paddles of a. whale. It was aquatic and lived most probably in the sea, if we arc...

...from twenty to forty vertebras. Twenty-two species have been described. In the words of Buckland, " To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile,...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." There were flying saurians called pterosaurs, of which about...

...great sea-lizards known as Saurians. One of them is thus described by Cuvier, a famous naturalist : "To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." Commonest among ordinary shell-fish were ammonites (chambered...

...yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. It possessed a lizard's head, with crocodile teeth, a neck of enormous length, resembling the body of...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale! " Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in...

...of an account of this reptile in Richard Owen's Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (1854): "To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." The remainder of De Mille's description is also based on Owen's...

...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...

...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...