Waiting for the Load 158 Roaring at the Weight 158 Rising, Still Protesting 158 Ready for Desert March 158 A Camel Being Loaded with Half-Ton Fossil Cases 158 At the Temple of Qasr-el-Sagha 194 Across the Libyan Desert 194 Zeuglodon, the Primitive Whale 220 Climbing to the Fossils 228 Finding a Sea-Cow Skeleton 228 The Four-Horned Giants at Bay 232 Into the Heart of Mexico 242 Carrying Shell of Glyptodont 242 Pteranodon, Climbing for a Swoop 250 Finding the Eobasileus 256 The Eobasileus or Loxolophodon 256 The American Mastodon 270 The Siberian Mammoth 270 The Mammoth Tusk He Found 276 Uncovering a Frozen Mammoth 276 Finding the Eohippus 292 Eohippus, the Four-Toed Horse 292 Finding the Mesohippus 294 Mesohippus, the Three-Toed Horse 294 Smilodon, the Sabre-Tooth Tiger 302 Museum Camp in Wyoming Bad Lands 308 The Largest of the Titanotheres 308 Herd Crossing Red Deer River, Alberta 312 Museum Boat Camp on Red Deer River 312 Opening (Rear Tent) to Moropus Quarry 322 Inside the Moropus Quarry, Agate, Neb. 322 The Dryptosaurus, a Giant Carnivorous Reptile 328 Unearthing a Saurolophus Skeleton 330 Unearthing a Diplodocus Hind Limb 330 Brontosaurus in his Native Swamp 332 Trachodon, a Duck-Billed Dinosaur 338 A Brachiosaur, Largest of All Land Creatures 346 THE MONSTER-HUNTERS THE MONSTER-HUNTERS CHAPTER I KILLING THE LAST DRAGON “Father, I want a dragon!” The shrewd old merchant lowered the evening newspaper he was diligently reading, and looked over it at his son. “All right, my boy,” he said with a smile; “go ahead and get one.” “But I mean a real dragon!”