Animals of the Past

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Nature, Life Sciences, Animals

Authors: Frederic Lucas In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Animals of the Past

Introductory and Explanatory
Chapter 1 Fossils, and How They Are Formed
Chapter 2 The Earliest Known Vertebrates
Chapter 3 Impressions of the Past
Chapter 4 Rulers of the Ancient Seas
Chapter 5 Birds of Old
Chapter 6 The Dinosaurs
Chapter 7 Reading the Riddles of the Rocks
Chapter 8 Feathered Giants
Chapter 9 Ancestry of the Horse
Chapter 10 The Mammoth
Chapter 11 The Mastodon
Chapter 12 Why Do Animals Become Extinct?

Prior to the emergence of paleontology and comparative anatomy as scientific disciplines at the end of the 18th century, it was generally known that there were species of animals that had disappeared completely. The term "extinction" originally applied to the extinguishing of fires or erasing of one's debt. It was not until 1784 that the term extinction was used to denote the complete eradication of a species of living being. In 1901, Frederic A. Lucas penned an overview of vertebrate animals whose only evidence of being remained in fossil records. The book focuses primarily on vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals. - Summary by Jeffery Smith