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Animals of the Past

Name: Animals of the Past
Author: Frederic Lucas

Frederic Lucas

Read by Jeffery · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Introductory and Explanatory (8:25)
Chapter 1 Fossils, and How They Are Formed (25:47)
Chapter 2 The Earliest Known Vertebrates (21:05)
Chapter 3 Impressions of the Past (21:35)
Chapter 4 Rulers of the Ancient Seas (30:39)
Chapter 5 Birds of Old (28:18)
Chapter 6 The Dinosaurs (28:39)
Chapter 7 Reading the Riddles of the Rocks (40:23)
Chapter 8 Feathered Giants (32:05)
Chapter 9 Ancestry of the Horse (23:32)
Chapter 10 The Mammoth (31:25)
Chapter 11 The Mastodon (32:32)
Chapter 12 Why Do Animals Become Extinct? (31:07)