"Marsupial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and MITCHELL to a Kangaroo!!! The "noble art" is going up! Whilloo! Stay, though! Since pugilist-man seems coward-clown, Perhaps 'tis the Marsupial coming down! ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892 • Various
... where Triassic rocks appear at the surface, are found west of the Mississippi, on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, where the beds consist of sandstones and gypsiferous marls. The American Trias is chiefly remarkable for having yielded the remains of a small Marsupial (Dromatherium), and numerous footprints, which have generally been referred to Birds (Brontozoum), along with the tracks of undoubted Reptiles (Otozoum, ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson
... creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as the still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys. The Quadrumana and all the higher mammals are probably derived from an ancient marsupial animal [usually provided with a pouch for the reception and nourishment of the young, as in the case of the kangaroo] and this through a long line of diversified forms, from some reptile-like or some amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish-like ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various |
