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Over the earth generally, however, they were superseded by the placental mammals, which suddenly break into the geological record in the early Tertiary, and spread with great vigour and rapidity over the four continents. Were they a progressive offshoot from the Mesozoic Marsupials, or Monotremes, or do they represent a separate stock from the primitive half-reptile and half-mammal family?
The whole tells us further that nature's method of producing a grasping or flying organ was here, not to build a new organ, but to take one that had hitherto been used for other purposes, and by slow changes modify its form and function until it was adapted to new duties. The arm of a bird, a flying appendage. The arm of an ancient half-bird half-reptile animal.
Half-way up one of its pointed crags is a dark cavern known as the Dragons Cave, which was at one time, in that misty past to which all legends belong, the habitation of a hideous monster, half-beast and half-reptile.
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