A long horn projects from the snout, and it is a fac-simile in miniature of the antediluvian monster, the "iguanodon," who was about a hundred feet long and twelve feet thick -- an awkward creature to meet in a narrow road. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Haven't you just breathed in a nitrogen atom that was once breathed out by the third iguanodon to the left of the tall cycad tree?. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
And then there was the strong element of The Dad throughout, his footprints as durable as those of the iguanodon in a fossilized coastal swamp bed. From Wordnik.com. [Supernatural: Jump the Shark - Pink Raygun.com] Reference
Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines — alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
In the instance of the iguanodon, it is not less than building a house upon four columns, as the quantities of material of which the standing iguanodon is composed, consist of 4 iron columns, 9 ft. long by 7 in. diameter, 600 bricks, 650 5 in. half-round drain-tiles, 900 plain tiles, 38 casks of cement, 90 casks of broken stone; making a total of 640 bushels of artificial stone. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The iguanodon glade was the scene of a horrible butchery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
The fossilised iguanodon footprint was hacked out of the limestone slab. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Wildlife organization has had to step up efforts to rehabilitate birds shot illegally] Reference
One wonders if the first iguanodon tooth was thought to be an iguana's. '. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
Where the iguanodon lived the elephant might have lived, but there was no elephant at that time. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl -- two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
I thought of the despairing yell of the tortured iguanodon -- that dreadful cry which had echoed through the woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines -- alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Of these the most remarkable are the plesiosaurus, the megalosaurus, the iguanodon, and the crocodile of Maestricht, all belonging to extinct species. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
In the lake region where I now found myself, the waters abounded with ichthyosauri, and along the margins the iguanodon dragged his obscene bulk in indolent immunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
Ichthyo Skull: 2500 Bells Ichthyo Torso: 2000 Bells iguanodon Length: 32.8 feet Early Cretaceous 'The iguanodon holds the distinction of being the first dinosaur ever found!. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
She wrote a tale, nine pages long, of a boy of the Palaeolithic period; she copied drawings of mastodon and dinosaur; she wished, secretly, she could have had an iguanodon as a pet. From Wordnik.com. [DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL] Reference
In the jungle which we traversed were numerous hard-trodden paths made by the wild beasts, and in the more marshy places we saw a profusion of strange footmarks, including many of the iguanodon. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
Around its edge were scattered a number of leathern thongs cut from iguanodon hide, and a large collapsed membrane which proved to be the dried and scraped stomach of one of the great fish lizards from the lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
He brought away some slabs of the recently formed mud, in order that naturalists who were sceptical as to the real origin of the ancient fossil ornithichnites might compare the fossil products lately formed with those referable to the feathered bipeds which preceded the era of the ichthyosaurus and iguanodon. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Time and again some huge iguanodon or a hipsohopus would pass, shaking the ground with its tread; but so implicit was the travellers 'trust in the vigilance of their mechanical and tireless watch, that they slept on as calmly and unconcernedly as though they had been in their beds at home, while the tick was as constant and regular as a sentry's march. From Wordnik.com. [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference
There was brontosaurus, and atlantosaurus, and hydrosaurus, and iguanodon, -- lizards, you know, not like these little black fellows that run about in the pulverized feldspar here, but chaps eighty or a hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty high; and turtles, as big as a house. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Fleece, a romance] Reference
If you found a little schoolboy on his half-holiday fishing for minnows with a crooked pin, and you began to tell him of all the wonders of the deep, the laws of the tides, and the antediluvian relies of iguanodon and ichthyosaurus; nay, if you spoke but of pearl fisheries and coral-banks, or water-kelpies and naiads, -- would not the little boy cry out peevishly, 'Don't tease me with all that nonsense; let me fish in peace for my minnows!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Child One: It's an iguanodon!. From Wordnik.com. [Danielle Crittenden: Countdown to Mother's Day] Reference
Child One: I'll put my iguanodon there too. From Wordnik.com. [Danielle Crittenden: Countdown to Mother's Day] Reference
However, the real iguanodon looked nothing like this, and was much more closely related to birds and crocodiles than lizards. but i’m starting to think more and more that creationists are still living in the 1850’s, so perhaps that explains mr. hovind’s comment. From Wordnik.com. [Iguana iguana - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Well, seeing that you responded to some hovind nonsense, i know what you mean. but when iguanodon was discovered, people did think of it a lot like a scaled up iguana, and many of the early illustrations portrayed it as such. even many later ones, featuring the inaccurate upright posture and correct thumb placement tended to make them look a lot like iguanas. curiously, i was actually thinking of one of those illustrations when i shot this. From Wordnik.com. [Iguana iguana - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Did you say a iguanodon?. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Days] Reference
The big iguanodon raised by that pan o 'done. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The fossilised iguanodon footprint was hacked. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Darwin showed interest in Indian biodiversity: Book] Reference
The big iguanodon hunched. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
They’ll be calling it an iguanodon next. From Wordnik.com. [Police at the Funeral]
Piccadilly; when the entire continent, not then, she understood, divided by a channel, was all one; populated, she understood, by elephant-bodied, seal-necked, heaving, surging, slowly writhing, and, she supposed, barking monsters; the iguanodon, the mammoth, and the mastodon; from whom presumably, she thought, jerking the window open, we descend. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
What if they were the remnants of a vanishing period of the earth's history long antecedent to the birth of mastodon and iguanodon; a stage, namely, when the world, as we call it, had not yet become quite visible, was not yet so far finished as to part from the invisible world that was its mother, and which, on its part, had not then become quite invisible -- was only almost such; and when, as a credible consequence, strange shapes of those now invisible regions. From Wordnik.com. [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference
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