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Dragons of the Air

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Dragons of the Air

Harry Seeley

Sir Richard Owen coined the term "dinosaur" ("Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") in the 19th century. When Harry G. Seeley, a student of law at that time, attended a lecture on flying reptiles, his interest in paleontology was piqued, and he pursued paleontology for the remainder of his life. He determined that dinosaurs could be divided into two groups, the lizard-hipped dinosaurs and the bird-hipped dinosaurs. He is also credited with characterizing flying dinosaurs as warm-blooded active flyers rather than cold-blooded passive gliders. His popular book on the flying dinosaurs, Dragons of the Air, is a comprehensive treatise on the structure, classification, and possible evolutionary origins of the Pterosaurs as well as their relationship to birds. - Summary by Jeffery Smith

Year of Publication: 1901Genres: Life Sciences , Nature , Animals
Running Time: 07 hours 51 minutes 14 seconds
#Chapter Name
1
The Nights
Preface
Jeffery
4:28
2
The Nights
Chapter 1 - Flying Reptiles
Jeffery
6:55
3
The Nights
Chapter 2 - How a Reptile is Known
Jeffery
16:18
4
The Nights
Chapter 3 - A Reptile is Known by its Bones
Jeffery
7:04
5
The Nights
Chapter 4 - Animals Which Fly
Jeffery
20:27
6
The Nights
Chapter 5 - Discovery of the Pterodactyle
Jeffery
19:29
7
The Nights
Chapter 6 - How Animals are Interpreted by their Bones
Jeffery
16:00
8
The Nights
Chapter 7 - Interpretation of Pterodactyles by Their Soft Parts
Jeffery
25:45
9
The Nights
Chapter 8 - The Plan of the Skeleton
Jeffery
44:16
10
The Nights
Chapter 9 - The Backbone, or Vertebral Column
Jeffery
29:46
11
The Nights
Chapter 10 - The Hip Girdle and Hind Limb
Jeffery
28:24
12
The Nights
Chapter 11 - Shoulder Girdle and Fore Limb
Jeffery
56:32
13
The Nights
Chapter 12 - Evidences of the Animal's Habits from its Remains
Jeffery
20:28
14
The Nights
Chapter 13 - Ancient Ornithosaurs from the Lias
Jeffery
21:13
15
The Nights
Chapter 14 - Rhamphocephalus
Jeffery
35:34
16
The Nights
Chapter 15 - Ornithosaurs from the Upper Secondary Rocks
Jeffery
26:48
17
The Nights
Chapter 16 - Classification of the Ornithosauria
Jeffery
15:04
18
The Nights
Chapter 17 - Family Relations of Pterodactyles to Animals which lived with them
Jeffery
34:35
19
The Nights
Chapter 18 - How Pterodactyles may have originated
Jeffery
42:08

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