Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the by Allen A. Debus

By Allen A. Debus

Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters comparable to giants and dragons. because the box of earth sciences matured in the course of the nineteenth century, early fossilists won realizing of prehistoric creatures akin to Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This old research examines how those actual beasts morphed within the public mind's eye into legendary, robust engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their position in pop culture, movie, and literature as symbols of “lost worlds” the place time stands still.

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