EXTINCT ANIMALS 



know of other extinct animals by finding their 

 bones buried in the ground, some quite near 

 the surface, others deeper in the rocks, far do^vn 

 in the depths of the earth. Such bones may 

 be dug out. There is a sample of such bones 



Fig. 1. — A number of bones of extinct animals embedded in 

 rock, from Pikermi near Athens. Photographed from a 

 specimen in the Natural History Museum. 



found buried in the earth, photographed as our 

 first illustration (Fig. 1). Many of these bones have 

 been so big, so huge, that they have led to the 

 notion of the existence of giants in former days, 

 it not having occurred, apparently, to those who 



