Animals of the lost world. Laverdan D.

Today we know a lot about life on Earth millions of years ago: that long before the appearance of people, it was inhabited by flying and floating reptiles, dinosaurs and beasts, that modern species came from old species, that many ancient animals did not look at all as they were represented earlier. But in order for us to learn this, science has made a long and difficult path from superstitions to hypotheses and evidence, through mistakes and errors to the truth. For thousands of years, scientists have been looking for answers to the question of who belong to the fossilized bones and shells found in the ground, in the mountains and on the coast, and explained their nature by the existence of giants and monsters, witchcraft and the worldwide flood. And when no one had any doubt that previously completely different animals lived strange mammals and huge reptiles, which later died out, paleontologists began to reconstruct their appearance, habits and the environment. Sometimes new finds simply turned everything upside down: the spike on the nose became a finger at the front limb, a tentacle on his back with his feet, and the kidnapper of eggs with a caring hen. In this book, you will get acquainted with hallucity, a creature without a tail and a head, with a tictaalic walking fish, with a huge plesiosaur, similar to a sea dragon and many other incredible creatures, and most importantly, with the stars of Dinomania Ti-Rex and diploma