armor-bearing

Updated: August 12, 2026

We see the limbless snakes; the lizards with active limbs; the huge, clumsy, slow crocodiles and alligators the armor-bearing turtles and tortoises all belonging to the one great family of Reptiles, and nearly all of them being degenerate descendants of the mighty Reptile forms of the geological Age of Reptiles, in which flourished the mighty forms of the giant reptiles the monsters of land and water.

William Walker Atkinson - A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga