There is no evidence that Compsognathus possessed feathers; but, if it did, it would be hard indeed to say whether it should be called a reptilian bird or an avian reptile.
Simple Simon stood at the foot of his bed--and was that a trace of a smile on his reptilian mouth?
Simple Simon's face was expressionless, but tears were zig-zagging down his gray, reptilian features.
They were tall bipeds of vaguely reptilian ancestry, most of their height being body.
Mazechazz resembled the delegation far more than he did his own officer, for he, too, had remotely reptilian forbears.
A rope had upheld a colossal, leering, reptilianhead while men with rifles posed self-consciously beside the dead creature.
At the more advanced stage, where the embryo has already passed the reptilian form, we find that for a considerable time the line of development remains the same as that of other mammalia.
Thus does the growth of the egg from which man springs compress into a few weeks the results of millions of years, and set before us the history of his development from fish-like and reptilian forms (which, as we have seen, p.
The Flying Dragons The Jurassic period showed a continuance of the reptilian splendour.
Of great interest are its reptilian features, so pronounced that one cannot evade the evolutionist suggestion.
The Reptilian Mind We speak of the wisdom of the serpent; but it is not very easy to justify the phrase.
In the Triassic period the exuberance of reptilian life which marked the Permian was continued.
Many geologic species are largest at the beginning; many ancient animals were much larger than their successors; and the reptilian age was noted for animals of enormous size.
What would be the advantage of the first few hairs of a mammal, or the first steps toward feathers in a bird, when these creatures were beginning to diverge from their reptilian ancestors?
Again, the Pterodactyli, in which reptilian characters are combined with peculiarities reminding us both of birds and bats.
The reptilian skull, in the number and disposition of its parts and in the manner of its attachment to the spinal column, resembles that of the birds, although the cranial bones remain separate, not fusing as in the birds.
Such a type of foot no doubt admirably meets the requirements of slow reptilian locomotion over swampy ground.
They began to hiss and snarl uneasily, rubbing their reptilian flanks together as they wheeled around, staring at him with lambent eyes.
In and out of the shelters, kicking the brush walls down, lifting up their harsh reptilian voices, they went racketing through the camp, leaving behind them wreckage as of a storm.
At this stage the body would have been less bird-like than that of Archaeopteryx, and have been still more like that of the ancestral reptilian stock from which the birds have sprung.
For if we examine the wing of an unhatched bird, we shall be able to get still nearer to the birth, and growth of the wing out of a reptilian fore-limb.
That feathers are, so to speak, glorified reptilian scales cannot be certainly demonstrated, but men of Science are generally agreed that this was their origin.
These agile creatures ran about on their hind legs with astonishing speed, using a long reptilian tail as a balance.
An immense reptilian neck some twenty-five feet long weaved continuously back and forth, while a surprisingly small, bullet-shaped head emitted rumbling grunts.
Professor Osborn, on the other hand, is inclined to consider him as a reptilian hyena, feeding upon carrion, although one can but feel that such an armament is not entirely in the interests of peace.
By slow degrees, and with a reptilian agility horrible to watch, Fu-Manchu was neutralizing the advantage gained by Weymouth.
He placed the lantern in a niche in the wall, never turning away the reptilian gaze of those eyes which must haunt my dreams forever.
In these fishes there is a singular union of reptilian with fish-like characters.
The most marked feature, in fact, connected with the Vertebrate fauna of the Trias, and of the Secondary rocks in general, is the great abundance of Reptilian life.
One of these respects concerns the jaws, both of which exhibit the Reptilian character of being armed with numerous small pointed teeth (fig.
These fishes are sometimes said to be "sauroid," from their presenting someReptilian features in their organisation, and they must have been the scourges of the Carboniferous seas.
As has been previously noticed, Professor Owen is of opinion that some of the Reptilian remains of the Permian deposits will also be found to belong to this group of the "Theriodonts.
Sometimes employed as a common term to designate the extinct Reptilian orders of the Ichthyosauria and Plesiosauria.
It was the unexpected creature that perched in the midst of it and seemed to look into my face with unwinking eyes of gold set in a flat reptilian head.
Its body was as large as that of a buzzard, and its head had a flat, reptilian look, unpleasant to see.
The reptilian skull is well ossified and the bones are noticeable for their density.
The occurrence of a postfrontal and its union with the jugal behind the orbit, are characteristic reptilian features.
These animals, called also the pterodactyles or Ornithosauria, are a group of extinct reptiles, whose structure has been greatly modified from the ordinary reptilian type for the purpose of flight.
Concerning the reptilian pubis there are considerable difficulties.
The reptilian pubis is best understood by comparing the arrangements met with in the various other groups with that in the Orthopod Dinosaurs such as Iguanodon.
They correspond in position with the prefrontals of the reptilianskull as well as with the nasals.
The stapes is very much like a reptilian columella, having a single crus with no perforation.
The pes is quite reptilian in type, and has five separate slender metatarsals.
This creature, a bird with reptilian characters, was a suggestive object from which to popularise some of the far-reaching results of his many years' labour upon the morphology of both birds and reptiles.
He sensed faintly the reptilian odor that he had learned to connect with the strange, nocturnal forms that had loomed dim and bulky on several occasions since his introduction to Pal-ul-don.
It only stood there, watching him out of its cold, reptilian eyes and then Tarzan raised his staff and with a menacing "Whee-oo!
The oldest, which he calls the reptilian brain, controls aggression and passionate impulsiveness.
It either takes a passive emotional position with MacLean's limbic system, or an impulsive aggressive position with the reptilian system.
