 enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every...  The Quarterly Review - Page 52edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1836 - 956 pages
...from a considerable depth, may hav( found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous cue mies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have...through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the allack which they enabled it to make on every animal ilticd for its prey, which came within its reach.'—pp.... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length ami flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the...which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted forks prey, which came within its reach."—Geol. Trans. N. s. vol. i. part ii. p. 388. We began our... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1837 - 528 pages
...for the want nf strength in it? jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, t»v tbe suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey. GENUS MOSASAURUS. Tbe form of the head and teeth are nearly allied to those of the monitor*. The teeth... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 528 pages
...and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the altnck which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey which came within its reach.' (Gcol. Trans., vol. i.. part •!, p. 3sa, NS) Of the general charac'.ers of the Ichthyosauri... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1841 - 492 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexU bility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fittedfor its prey, which came within its reach."—Geol. Trans. N.. s. vol. i. part ii. p. 388. We... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animals - 1849 - 416 pages
...assault of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have SEA DRAGONS. 341 compensated for the want of strength in its jaws,...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach." Professor Buckland is of opinion that the tail, being comparatively short, could not have been... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Fossils - 1851 - 536 pages
...with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of its enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey that came within its extensive sweep." ' PLESIOSAURUS HAWKINSII.—Wall-case D.—The splendid specimen... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws, and ita incapacity for swift motion through the water, by...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey." These remarks are in harmony with the appearance of the animal, which is far less formidable than that... | |
 | Louis Figuier - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1866 - 542 pages
...the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws, and incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack they enabled it to make on every animal fitted to become its prey." The Plesiosaurus was first described... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - History - 1870 - 384 pages
...of strength in its jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the sud denness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach/'* The Pampas of South America are not less famous in Geology for the remains of Gigantic quadrupeds,... | |
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