Animals of the Past: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Animals of the Past, credited to Frederic Lucas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Animals of the Past by Frederic Lucas. Read in English by Jeffery Prior to the emergence of paleontology and comparative anatomy as scientific disciplines at the end of the 18th century, it was generally that there were species of animals that had disappeared completely. The term "extinction" originally applied to the extinguishing of fires or erasing of one's debt. It was not until 1784 that the term extinction was used to denote the complete eradication of a species of living being. In 1901, Frederic A. Lucas penned an overview of vertebrate animals whose only evidence of being remained in fossil records. The book focuses primarily of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals. - Summary by Jeffery Smith

Recording facts

• Recording title: Animals of the Past
• Author credits: Frederic Lucas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 5:54:56

Catalogue topics

• animals
• paleontology
• extinct
• fossil
• vertebrates

Track guide

1. 00 - Introductory and Explanatory — 8:25
2. 01 - Chapter 1 Fossils, and How They Are Formed — 25:44
3. 02 - Chapter 2 The Earliest Known Vertebrates — 21:05
4. 03 - Chapter 3 Impressions of the Past — 21:35
5. 04 - Chapter 4 Rulers of the Ancient Seas — 30:35
6. 05 - Chapter 5 Birds of Old — 28:15
7. 06 - Chapter 6 The Dinosaurs — 28:36
8. 07 - Chapter 7 Reading the Riddles of the Rocks — 40:18
9. 08 - Chapter 8 Feathered Giants — 32:01
10. 09 - Chapter 9 Ancestry of the Horse — 23:29
11. 10 - Chapter 10 The Mammoth — 31:21
12. 11 - Chapter 11 The Mastodon — 32:28
13. 12 - Chapter 12 Why Do Animals Become Extinct? — 31:04

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