The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11

mighty battle which took place 100000
years ago have just been received at the
American Museum of Natural History in
New York It was fought between two of
The biggest animals thai ever lived, one a
herbivorous dinosaur terrible nzard),
about ninety feet long and tain enough to
wade across the Hudson river at
Grants tomb without wetting his head.
and the other a fesh-eating dinosaur,
probably twenty-five or thirty feet long
and weighing thirty or forty tons.
The details of this battle are as clear
~ known as II it had happened yester-
day, and the body of The monslrous victim
lies outstretchod in Central Park. :. For
DR. Workman. who has charge of the
museums field work in paleonotogy has
read the story of the fight in the skeleton
which he unearthed and brought 10 New
York a part of a shipment of two whole
carloads of huge bones
Fight Took Place in wyoming.
The fight took place in what is now
the state OF Wyoming, which was then
the shore of "A great inland sea, which ex-
tended in a nOrtherly and southerly drec-
ton through the center of the United
States Here among the tropical grass and
palms these huge end terrible animals
lived and waded and here those that ate
flesh proved upon those that. fed on vege-
tation. Just as The lesser animals do to-
day, When the huge dinosaur, The skele-
ton of which DR.. Workman has found, was
killed it sank down in The
soft ooze and there as the
sea receded. il slowly petrifed and
lay for 100000 years. And there il was
-. Zee
enormous tail bones Dr. Workman has
found deep ridges showing where its en-
emy's claws struck down and stripped off
the flesh. and some of the lower vertebrate
are entirely broken off, giving some idea
of the awful violence of the attack,
Crept Up From Behind.
The hesh-eating dinosaur. which was
something of The shape of an enormous
kangaroo. musi have crept up from be-
hind and taken its prey by surprise, as
a tiger falls on an OK, and by The fierce
ness of the onslaught overcame an nni-
mai twice its size. Inasmuch as there
Is no evidence of the bones having at
tempted 10 mend themselves, the attack
must have caused the death of the herbiv-
oTous animal
Ten Times the Size of IA MnstodOn.
The dinosaur. brontosaur. morosaur. di-
ploducus and others of the same order
lived and dominated the earth during what
are known as the Jurassic and the late
Triassic ages. Some of them were only
as large as our common rabbit; others
reached she great length OF seventy eigh-
Is and ninety feet. Occasional fragment
airy skeletons have been found in Europe,
Asia. Africa and even Australia, but the
greatest number and the most perfect re-
mains have been found in the Americas.
The Bad Lands OF the West are found in
places literally TO be underiald with che
bones of dinosaurs. They are Of such GU
rious shape and odd formation that geolo-
gists are enabled by means of them 10
draw no uncertain picture Of the conditions
which existed on earth during these early
ages. From the teeth they are enabled 70
say JUST what kind OF food the animal
lived on from the shape Of the feet they
can state the Kind OF ground he trod upon.
from another fossil they are enabled 70
state that the animals had cannibalistie
traits. That b., n carnivorous species kill
81 and ate a herbvorous species. The
work 81 hnding. identifying. Transporting.
mounting and studying these great homes
. Mighty Interesting. Special inches viii
.hatc 20 lc made la the American museum
$40 receive the mounted skeletons. ,rbo
, fpmplete skeleton 81 tbc nes dlnogaur win
pa s-ish probably 1924 pounds. Compare
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