 ... 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
 | Richard Lydekker - 1892 - 334 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." Nothing that has been discovered since the date when the above passage was penned can suggest any more... | |
 | Henry Neville Hutchinson - 1910 - 454 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...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep." More than twenty species of long-necked sea-lizards are known to geologists. % Professor... | |
 | 1837 - 658 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." — pp. 164, 165. But the most extraordinary of all the ancient Saurians are the Pterodactyles. Of... | |
 | 1836 - 610 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.' — pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals : — ' Pursuing... | |
 | M. J. S. Rudwick - 1992 - 302 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...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep. William Conybeare, "Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus" (1824). Figure 19. Duriti antiquior:... | |
 | J. P. O'Neill - 2003 - 257 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 of its neck may have compensated for want of strength in its jaws and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness... | |
 | 1857 - 380 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...swift motion through the water by the suddenness and the agility of the attack, which it enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its pray which came... | |
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