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... less known , strange , and often gigantic creatures which have now passed away for ever , and are re- vealed to us - it may be but obscurely - only by their dry bones . The series has , the author flatters himself , met with a ...
... less known , strange , and often gigantic creatures which have now passed away for ever , and are re- vealed to us - it may be but obscurely - only by their dry bones . The series has , the author flatters himself , met with a ...
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... less completely aërial mode of life . It is true , indeed , that certain birds , such as the Ostrich , Cassowary , and Penguins , are totally incapable of flight ; but this incapacity is certainly an acquired one in the last - named ...
... less completely aërial mode of life . It is true , indeed , that certain birds , such as the Ostrich , Cassowary , and Penguins , are totally incapable of flight ; but this incapacity is certainly an acquired one in the last - named ...
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... less closely united . This finger , therefore , forms the chief part of the extremity of the wing or pinion ; but , instead of its bones being much longer than those of the arm and fore - arm put together , as is the case with the ...
... less closely united . This finger , therefore , forms the chief part of the extremity of the wing or pinion ; but , instead of its bones being much longer than those of the arm and fore - arm put together , as is the case with the ...
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... less united together . In the Archaeopteryx , which is the oldest known bird and a contemporary of the Pterodactyles of the Lithographic Limestones of Bavaria , all the three fingers were , however , perfectly separate from one another ...
... less united together . In the Archaeopteryx , which is the oldest known bird and a contemporary of the Pterodactyles of the Lithographic Limestones of Bavaria , all the three fingers were , however , perfectly separate from one another ...
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... less com- pletely crepuscular and nocturnal habits , they have never entered seriously into competition with the Birds , so that both groups are found existing side by side in full development . CHAPTER III . SWIMMING ANIMALS . IN the ...
... less com- pletely crepuscular and nocturnal habits , they have never entered seriously into competition with the Birds , so that both groups are found existing side by side in full development . CHAPTER III . SWIMMING ANIMALS . IN the ...
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