Dragons of the Air: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dragons of the Air, credited to Harry Seeley, 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 Dragons of the Air by Harry Seeley. Read in English by Jeffery Sir Richard Owen coined the term "dinosaur" ("Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") in the 19th century. When Harry G. Seeley, a student of law at that time, attended a lecture on flying reptiles, his interest in paleontology was piqued, and he pursued paleontology for the remainder of his life. He determined that dinosaurs could be divided into two groups, the lizard-hipped dinosaurs and the bird-hipped dinosaurs. He is also credited with characterizing flying dinosaurs as warm-blooded active flyers rather than cold-blooded passive gliders. His popular book on the flying dinosaurs, Dragons of the Air, is a comprehensive treatise on the structure, classification, and possible evolutionary origins of the Pterosaurs as well as their relationship to birds. - Summary by Jeffery Smith

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dragons of the Air
• Author credits: Harry Seeley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 7:51:14

Catalogue topics

• paleontology
• fossil
• dinosuar
• pterosaur

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:28
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Flying Reptiles — 6:55
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - How a Reptile is Known — 16:18
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - A Reptile is Known by its Bones — 7:04
5. 04 - Chapter 4 - Animals Which Fly — 20:27
6. 05 - Chapter 5 - Discovery of the Pterodactyle — 19:29
7. 06 - Chapter 6 - How Animals are Interpreted by their Bones — 16:00
8. 07 - Chapter 7 - Interpretation of Pterodactyles by Their Soft Parts — 25:45
9. 08 - Chapter 8 - The Plan of the Skeleton — 44:16
10. 09 - Chapter 9 - The Backbone, or Vertebral Column — 29:46
11. 10 - Chapter 10 - The Hip Girdle and Hind Limb — 28:24
12. 11 - Chapter 11 - Shoulder Girdle and Fore Limb — 56:32
13. 12 - Chapter 12 - Evidences of the Animal's Habits from its Remains — 20:28
14. 13 - Chapter 13 - Ancient Ornithosaurs from the Lias — 21:13
15. 14 - Chapter 14 - Rhamphocephalus — 35:34
16. 15 - Chapter 15 - Ornithosaurs from the Upper Secondary Rocks — 26:48
17. 16 - Chapter 16 - Classification of the Ornithosauria — 15:04
18. 17 - Chapter 17 - Family Relations of Pterodactyles to Animals which lived with them — 34:35
19. 18 - Chapter 18 - How Pterodactyles may have originated — 42:08

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