 ... occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach. It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth,...  The Daguerreotype - Seite 2341848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1870 - 660 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." The geological range of the Plesiosaurus is from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive, and specimens have... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1871 - 704 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." The geological range of the Plesiosaurus is from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive, and specimens have... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1872 - 636 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." The geological range of the Plesiosaurus is from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive, and specimens have... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - 1873 - 496 Seiten
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'" Not less wonderful than these is the Cetiosaurus, or Whale-like Lizard, the largest animal yet known... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1873 - 386 Seiten
...level with the surface, from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey which came within its reach." While thus water and land abounded with their prodigies, the air had its ; and in it floated the PTERODACTYLE,... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1873 - 738 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies • while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." The geological range of the Plesiosaurus is from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive, and specimens have... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1875 - 768 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." The geological range of the Plcsiosaurus is from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive, and specimens have... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1875 - 378 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." ORDER VII. PTEROSATJRIA (Gr. pteron, wing; saura, lizard). — The Reptiles of this order are all extinct,... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1877 - 448 Seiten
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." About twenty species of Plesiosaurus are known, ranging from the Lias to the Chalk, and specimens have... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1878 - 448 Seiten
...a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies; whilst the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." ORDER VII. PTEROSAURIA. — The Reptiles of this order are all extinct, and, like those of the preceding... | |
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