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Dragons of the Air

Name: Dragons of the Air
Author: Harry Seeley

Harry Seeley

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

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Preface (4:28)
Chapter 1 - Flying Reptiles (6:55)
Chapter 2 - How a Reptile is Known (16:18)
Chapter 3 - A Reptile is Known by its Bones (7:04)
Chapter 4 - Animals Which Fly (20:27)
Chapter 5 - Discovery of the Pterodactyle (19:29)
Chapter 6 - How Animals are Interpreted by their Bones (16:00)
Chapter 7 - Interpretation of Pterodactyles by Their Soft Parts (25:48)
Chapter 8 - The Plan of the Skeleton (44:16)
Chapter 9 - The Backbone, or Vertebral Column (29:46)
Chapter 10 - The Hip Girdle and Hind Limb (28:24)
Chapter 11 - Shoulder Girdle and Fore Limb (56:32)
Chapter 12 - Evidences of the Animal's Habits from its Remains (20:28)
Chapter 13 - Ancient Ornithosaurs from the Lias (21:13)
Chapter 14 - Rhamphocephalus (35:34)
Chapter 15 - Ornithosaurs from the Upper Secondary Rocks (26:48)
Chapter 16 - Classification of the Ornithosauria (15:04)
Chapter 17 - Family Relations of Pterodactyles to Animals which lived with them (34:35)
Chapter 18 - How Pterodactyles may have originated (42:08)