CHAPTER XI

UNDER THE CLAWS OF A DINOSAUR 306

ILLUSTRATIONS

A Battle to the Death Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

Dragon Slain by Regulus 20

Scylla of the Seven Heads 20

Merman from the Mediterranean 20

The Dragon of the Drachenfels 20

Monsters Thought Real by the Ancients 20

The Unicorn in China 42

Stegosaurus, the Super-Dreadnought of Old 50

The Largest Creature that Ever Flew 72

A Flying Nightmare of Olden Time 72

Sea-Serpent Attacking a Pirate Ship 82

The Fiercest Monster that Ever Lived 84

The Sharp-Toothed Death 86

The Jurassic Sea-Serpent 86

Combat Between Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus 88

Sea-Serpent Swallowing Sailors 96

The Most Authentic Sea-Serpent 96

Waiting for the Load 158

Roaring at the Weight 158

Rising, Still Protesting 158

Ready for Desert March 158

A Camel Being Loaded with Half-Ton Fossil Cases 158

At the Temple of Qasr-el-Sagha 194

Across the Libyan Desert 194

Zeuglodon, the Primitive Whale 220

Climbing to the Fossils 228

Finding a Sea-Cow Skeleton 228

The Four-Horned Giants at Bay 232

Into the Heart of Mexico 242

Carrying Shell of Glyptodont 242

Pteranodon, Climbing for a Swoop 250

Finding the Eobasileus 256

The Eobasileus or Loxolophodon 256

The American Mastodon 270

The Siberian Mammoth 270

The Mammoth Tusk He Found 276

Uncovering a Frozen Mammoth 276

Finding the Eohippus 292

Eohippus, the Four-Toed Horse 292

Finding the Mesohippus 294

Mesohippus, the Three-Toed Horse 294

Smilodon, the Sabre-Tooth Tiger 302

Museum Camp in Wyoming Bad Lands 308

The Largest of the Titanotheres 308

Herd Crossing Red Deer River, Alberta 312

Museum Boat Camp on Red Deer River 312

Opening (Rear Tent) to Moropus Quarry 322

Inside the Moropus Quarry, Agate, Neb. 322

The Dryptosaurus, a Giant Carnivorous Reptile 328

Unearthing a Saurolophus Skeleton 330

Unearthing a Diplodocus Hind Limb 330

Brontosaurus in his Native Swamp 332

Trachodon, a Duck-Billed Dinosaur 338

A Brachiosaur, Largest of All Land Creatures 346

THE MONSTER-HUNTERS

THE MONSTER-HUNTERS