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The monster-hunters

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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A lively, illustrated youth-oriented account traces expeditions and museum work that uncover prehistoric creatures, blending field adventures with scientific explanation. It follows young enthusiasts and museum scientists as they excavate fossils across deserts, river quarries, and frozen wastes, describe restorations and debates about sea-serpents and dragon legends, and present anatomical and life reconstructions of dinosaurs, primitive horses, mastodons, early whales, and flying reptiles. Chapters alternate between narrative field episodes and accessible natural-history exposition, emphasizing methods of discovery, preparation, and exhibition while celebrating the excitement of finding and interpreting ancient remains.

ILLUSTRATIONS

A Battle to the Death Frontispiece
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Dragon Slain by Regulus 20
Scylla of the Seven Heads 20
Merman from the Mediterranean 20
The Dragon of the Drachenfels 20
Monsters Thought Real by the Ancients 20
The Unicorn in China 42
Stegosaurus, the Super-Dreadnought of Old 50
The Largest Creature that Ever Flew 72
A Flying Nightmare of Olden Time 72
Sea-Serpent Attacking a Pirate Ship 82
The Fiercest Monster that Ever Lived 84
The Sharp-Toothed Death 86
The Jurassic Sea-Serpent 86
Combat Between Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus 88
Sea-Serpent Swallowing Sailors 96
The Most Authentic Sea-Serpent 96
Waiting for the Load 158
Roaring at the Weight 158
Rising, Still Protesting 158
Ready for Desert March 158
A Camel Being Loaded with Half-Ton Fossil Cases 158
At the Temple of Qasr-el-Sagha 194
Across the Libyan Desert 194
Zeuglodon, the Primitive Whale 220
Climbing to the Fossils 228
Finding a Sea-Cow Skeleton 228
The Four-Horned Giants at Bay 232
Into the Heart of Mexico 242
Carrying Shell of Glyptodont 242
Pteranodon, Climbing for a Swoop 250
Finding the Eobasileus 256
The Eobasileus or Loxolophodon 256
The American Mastodon 270
The Siberian Mammoth 270
The Mammoth Tusk He Found 276
Uncovering a Frozen Mammoth 276
Finding the Eohippus 292
Eohippus, the Four-Toed Horse 292
Finding the Mesohippus 294
Mesohippus, the Three-Toed Horse 294
Smilodon, the Sabre-Tooth Tiger 302
Museum Camp in Wyoming Bad Lands 308
The Largest of the Titanotheres 308
Herd Crossing Red Deer River, Alberta 312
Museum Boat Camp on Red Deer River 312
Opening (Rear Tent) to Moropus Quarry 322
Inside the Moropus Quarry, Agate, Neb. 322
The Dryptosaurus, a Giant Carnivorous Reptile 328
Unearthing a Saurolophus Skeleton 330
Unearthing a Diplodocus Hind Limb 330
Brontosaurus in his Native Swamp 332
Trachodon, a Duck-Billed Dinosaur 338
A Brachiosaur, Largest of All Land Creatures 346