CONTENTS 
CHAPTER PAGE 
I. How Extinct Monsters are Preserved 10 
II. Footprints on the Sands of Time 27 
III. Sea-Scorpions 50 
IV. The Great Fish-Lizards 59 
V. The Great Sea-Lizards 76 
VI. Ancient Salamanders 85 
VII. Anomalous Keptiles 105 
VIII. The Dinosaurs 124 
IX. The Dinosaurs { continued ) 158 
X. Sea-Serpents 187 
XL Flying Dragons 199 
XII. Ancient Birds 211 
XIII. Some Early Mammals : The Story of the Horse . . . 231 
XIV. The Story of the Elephants 264 
XV. Sloths and Armadillos 283 
XVI. Whales and Wombats, etc 294 
