 | 1841 - 488 pages
...conical teeth. Their eyes were of great size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. From their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled to creep or climb,... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 564 pages
...Wealden, the megalosaurus probably existed through the whole oolitic epoch. Tooth of Megalosaurus. Pterodactyl. Pterodactyls, which accompany these remains...length of neck was produced, not by numerous cervical vertebrae, but by the elongation of a few, not exceeding six or seven in number, whereas, in birds,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...a cormorant. The eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling it to fly by night. From the wings projected fingers terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled to creep or climb,... | |
 | William Chambers - Zoology - 1842 - 438 pages
...teeth. Their eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. From their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed powerful members, with which the animals were enabled to climb, or... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...cormorant. The eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling the animal to fly by night. From the wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw wherewith the animal was able to creep or climb, or... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1851 - 598 pages
...armed with conical teeth. Their eyes, of enormous size, enabled them to fly by night; from their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of a bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, by which the animal was enabled to creep or climb, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...was considered by some to be a bird, by others as a species of bat or a flying reptile. From the wing projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat The form of a single bone in this complex and anomalous structure enabled Cuvier conclusively... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 832 pages
...a cormorant. The eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling it to fly by night. From the wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled to creep or climb,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 274 pages
...teeth. Their eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. From their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled to creep or climb,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - Cleveland (England) - 1872 - 168 pages
...teeth. Their eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by night. From their wings projected fingers, terminated by long hooks, like the curved claw on the thumb of the bat. These must have formed a powerful paw, wherewith the animal was enabled to creep or climb,... | |
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In external form these animals somewhat resemble our modern bats and vampires : most of them had the nose elongated, like the snout of a crocodile, and armed with conical teeth. Their eyes were of enormous size, apparently enabling them to fly by night.... 
