It is also encountered in the pickerels, the Cyprini, and in Labrus among fishes, and in some saurians and ophidia among reptiles.
This unique arrangement, which is not found in any other known vertebrate, may possibly be led back to a type-form encountered in certain saurians (see p.
The flying saurians of the cretaceous sea of Kansas, though not numerous in species, were of remarkable size.
Of the countless millions of saurians then existing, capricious Nature had seized upon this one, to transmute it into an imperishable monument of that extinct race.
Every child about the place recognises ammonites as 'snake-stones;' while even the rarer vertebrae of extinct saurians have acquired a local designation as 'verterberries.
When the blue mud was slowly accumulating in the hollows of the ancient bottom, these huge saurians formed practically the highest race of animals then existing upon earth.
There are saurians in good preservation, one of which was presented to the Museum for 150l.
Now if the latter also possessed a multiple origin, the problem of the extinction of the saurians would, according to Steinmann solve itself.
The saurians have become almost extinct and the mammal-tribe suddenly shows a most extraordinary variability and power of development.
It has been conclusively proved that a fewsaurians have been killed by the ancestors of the kree, but the favourite food of these birds was undoubtedly the Thermosaurus.
The remains of saurians also occur in this formation.
The finger-bones, which in the other saurians form the paddles, are in the Pterodactyle very much lengthened, so as to support a membranous expansion, like that of the bat.
Since, therefore, the dragon form ex hypothesi is a reminiscence of the huge, now fossil, Saurianswhich preceded the serpent in time, the early mythologies could hardly have so regularly described great serpents instead of dragons.
The restorations of Saurians on their islet at the Crystal Palace show how much common sense there is in this theory.
And he subsided and returned to the eating of crackers, of which, as everybody knows, the saurians were extremely fond.
It may be that thesaurians had their own games of chance and their own stakes--and, I may add, their own methods of enforcing payment.
In the Saurians the maxillae are fixed and immovable, and the mandibles are joined by an osseous suture, so that the cleft of the mouth can be dilated only in the usual vertical direction.
It was then that those monstrous Saurians lived, whose dimensions even are startling to our imagination.
Moreover, in these limbless Saurians we always find bones of the shoulder hidden below the skin, whilst no trace of them can be discovered in the true Snakes.
There are various limbless Saurians of Ophidian appearance, but the systematic position of which is decided by the structure of their jaws.
In the book of Job we recognise in Leviathan a creature more like the extinct saurians of the old world than any crocodile recorded in historic times; and this leviathan is treated as still existing in the days of David.
Strictly speaking, they were not serpents, but more or less like some of the extinct saurians described in chap.
Only a geologist can fully appreciate how enormously the balance of probability is contrary to the supposition that any of the gigantic marine Saurians of the secondary deposits should have continued to live up to the present time.
Defn: A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.
Defn: A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
Ruth and Alice had lost much of their first fear, and really the only danger now was lest one of the big saurians upset the boat, which it might easily do, by coming up under it.
Now and then they would see alligators in the waters up or down which they rowed, but the saurians showed no disposition to molest the boat.
We are going where there are no alligators; but I'll pay anyone who is injured in the slightest by one of the saurians a thousand dollars!
Occasionally they saw some of the big saurians themselves, as they slipped into the water from some log, or sand bar, on the approach of the steamer.
True, he had views of the saurians at the alligator farm near St. Augustine, but this was different.
The inhabitants of the land, which happen to be drowned or thrown into the water, are usually devoured by these voracious reptiles; but we may suppose the remains of the saurians themselves to be continually entombed in the new formations.
The great saurians sometimes cross a considerable tract in order to pass from one river to another; but their motions by land are generally slower than those of quadrupeds.
It appears also that some of these ancient saurians approximated more nearly in their organization to the type of living mammalia than do any of the reptiles now existing.
Those great reptilian lords, the biped Saurians of the Mesozoic, already foreshadowed his erect posture, though their limbs may have been more ornithic than mammalian.
The last and some of the greatest of the Mesozoic Saurians have their burial-places in the Upper Cretaceous, and appear no more on earth.
It has been conclusively proved that a fewsaurians have been killed by the ancestors of the kree, but the favorite food of these birds was undoubtedly the thermosaurus.
Further, from the number of specimens and fragments found, it is obvious that these great aquatic saurians were by no means rare; and that some of the species at least must have been very abundant.
As the Cretaceous deluge rose over the continents of the Mesozoic, the great sea saurians might have followed.
Perhaps we may yet meet with some of those saurianswhich science has reconstructed out of a bit of bone or cartilage.
The saurians of our day, the alligators and the crocodiles, are but feeble reproductions of their forefathers of primitive ages.
The huge saurians appear to have been precisely adapted to the low muddy coasts and sea margins of the time when they flourished.
These saurians also combine some peculiarities of structure of a most extraordinary character.
A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebr\'91 and the teeth implanted in sockets.
A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
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