"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…"

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

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

"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…"

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

"Some mosasaurs may have been a belated ecological replacement of Triassic ichthyosaurs, but not of the Late Cretaceou…"

"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…"