Word: pterodactyls
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...years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus the discovery of a live Coelacanth in the world of airplanes and television is as surprising, from an anatomical and evolutionary point of view, as would be that of a pterodactyl or diplodocus...
...Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with little thought for the comfort or convenience of the men who flew them. Like the prehistoric pterodactyl, which they somewhat resembled in appearance, most of these types are extinct now, were being supplanted before the War was over. Gaunt, unstable contraptions, held together with piano wire (the pilots used to say that canaries could be caged in their rigging) most of them rose slowly and landed fast, crashed easily...
...crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...
...this technique into presumably formal fiction. The author starts several things and when within view of the prey sits down and lights a cigarette. Uncle Bliss, a big-game hunter who calmly takes a snifter out of his pocket flask at a strictly temperance dinner, goes to Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home without it to England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting...
...already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black instrument buzzed like a fly in a funnel. Another virtuoso had painted from memory his conception of a pterodactyl seen in the Natural History Museum. Hardly a drawing, a painting, a piece of sculpture, failed to reveal the record of personal experience, procured by observation, executed with sensitiveness...