The Appearance Of The Bones Of Quadrupeds, Especially Those Of Complete Bodies In The Strata, Tells Us Either That The Layer Itself Which Carries Them Was In Earlier Times Dry Land Or That Dry Land Was At Least Formed In The Immediate Area.

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

George Cuvier

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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

George Cuvier

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Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

George Cuvier

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Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

George Cuvier

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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

George Cuvier

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