Dragons of the Air


Gelesen von Jeffery

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Sir Richard Owen coined the term "dinosaur" ("Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") in the 19th century. When Harry G. Seeley, a student of law at that time, attended a lecture on flying reptiles, his interest in paleontology was piqued, and he pursued paleontology for the remainder of his life. He determined that dinosaurs could be divided into two groups, the lizard-hipped dinosaurs and the bird-hipped dinosaurs. He is also credited with characterizing flying dinosaurs as warm-blooded active flyers rather than cold-blooded passive gliders. His popular book on the flying dinosaurs, Dragons of the Air, is a comprehensive treatise on the structure, classification, and possible evolutionary origins of the Pterosaurs as well as their relationship to birds. - Summary by Jeffery Smith

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Preface 4:28 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 1 - Flying Reptiles 6:55 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 2 - How a Reptile is Known 16:18 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 3 - A Reptile is Known by its Bones 7:04 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 4 - Animals Which Fly 20:27 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 5 - Discovery of the Pterodactyle 19:29 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 6 - How Animals are Interpreted by their Bones 16:00 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 7 - Interpretation of Pterodactyles by Their Soft Parts 25:45 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 8 - The Plan of the Skeleton 44:16 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 9 - The Backbone, or Vertebral Column 29:46 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 10 - The Hip Girdle and Hind Limb 28:24 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 11 - Shoulder Girdle and Fore Limb 56:32 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 12 - Evidences of the Animal's Habits from its Remains 20:28 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 13 - Ancient Ornithosaurs from the Lias 21:13 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 14 - Rhamphocephalus 35:34 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 15 - Ornithosaurs from the Upper Secondary Rocks 26:48 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 16 - Classification of the Ornithosauria 15:04 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 17 - Family Relations of Pterodactyles to Animals which lived with them 34:35 Gelesen von Jeffery
Chapter 18 - How Pterodactyles may have originated 42:08 Gelesen von Jeffery