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mammals had then taken to the water. Many may 

 have fallen before great numbers of small foes, just 

 as whales and sharks perish now; or some special 

 parasite or disease may have attacked them. 



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Fig. 76. — The nearly entire skeleton of Pterodadylns speciahUis (Von 

 Meyer), as shown hy the two halves of a split hlock of litho- 

 graphic slate, a, the left prepubic bone ; on the right side this 

 bone is not shown, and the ilium is exposed. 



