"Kansas, par excellence, has been the great collecting ground of the world for these reptiles."

"The typical mosasaur was shaped like a moray or salt-water eel, with the addition of four broad paddles, built for st…"

"Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs had a much longer history than mosasaurs and appear to have been scaleless. It is possib…"

"This sea-going reptile with terrestrial ancestors converged so strongly on fishes that it actually evolved a dorsal f…"

"Half lizard, and half fish, the name Ichthyosauri expresses the words, but not the Idea which lurks within them. It i…"

"There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favor of man than it had in f…"

"Leptopterygius, big as a city bus, was an insatiable ichthyosaur, anything captured by Leptopterygius Never was seen …"

"These particulars, in which the bones of this animal differ from those of fishes, are sufficient to shew, that althou…"

"Its place in the chain of animal creation is clearly pointed out to be between the proteus and lizard, and will be su…"

"Es rauscht in den Schachtelhalmen, Verdächtig leuchtet das Meer, Da schwimmt mit Thränen im Auge Ein Ichthyosaurus da…"