Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-11-30
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY RE,
PORTED FROM NEW YORK.
STRANGE MONSTER IN FAC
Creature 50 Feet Long Discovered in
the Mountains OF Montana Pro
cess Of Restoration to Be Pursued
at Museum of Natural History In
the Metropolis,

rocks IN northern Montana scientists
have dug the skeleton OF the real
king ot beasts, An expedition sent
out ny the American Museum OF
Natural History In New York has
just reported the resurrection OF the
largest tesh,eatiug land animal thus
far known to the world This con,
shtutcs one OF the most remarkable
/ finds In the recent history Of paleon.
/ tology.
The curator Of the department of
vertebrate paleontology of this mu.
scum, Professor Henry T. Osborn, un.
der whose direction the expedition
was sont out has conferred upon
this newly discovered monster the
title Tyranuosaurus rex. In plain
English this means the tyrnnt king
saurIan, or the king of tyrant saur.
ians.
AT the present moment the remains
of this denizcn of the past are being
! shipped to New York in number of
carefully made boxes, some OF the
boxes Weighing over two tons When
these old bones arrive, they will be
examined and cleaned with as much
care as II they were fun of diamonds
for to science this discovery Ia more
important than that of great many
diamonds, A large force OF skilled
worltmen will be detailed to the job,
every bone will be placed In Its
proper place In the skeleton, missing
bcnes will be modelled out of plaster
OF Parts, and In few months the
completed skeleton win be placed on
exhibition in the halls of the museum
whero visitors may como and soc
what this king of beasts few mil.
lion years ago was like.
Monster Thirty-nne Feet Long.
Enough parts OF this animal have
been found to make II possible to
estimate quite exactly what his size
was. From the end OF has tail to tho
front of his nose he probably meas.
ured about thirty.nlno feet, The dis.
lance from his skull as normally
poised to the ground would be about
nineteen feet-moro than three times
| the height of an ordinary human
| skeleton, A drawing showing the com.
parative sizes OF the hyrannosaurus
TEX and the human skeleton has been
placed on exhibition In tho museum.
The difference is shown to be about
like that between an ostrich ana an
ordinary barnyard hen. The present
restoration Is, however. entirely pre-.
! liminary.
or such Importance TO science Is
this discovery that It has nocessitated
Reconsideration of tho carnIyorous
dinosaurs of the cretacoous geological
| period. Tyrannosaurus now becomes
the name of new genus. These
! eating dinosaurs of the latter
part Of the age OF reptiles now show
| themselves 10 have been far more
diversified than had been supposed.
! The particular hobby of these Great.
urcs seems to have been to make life
miserable for all the herblvorous di.
nosaurs of the period
one Of the newly.named forms Is
that Of the dynamosnurs powerful
lizards 1t seems that their particu.
! lar prey was the ducl.bllled dInosaur
or Iguanodont The Iguanodonts were
partly protected from attack by bony
plates located along the sides Of the
body. Another interesting family
was the ornthomlmidae-" min.
lckers," which was relatively small
but extremely swift footed
The "Tyrant's Prey"
But for real bigness and other ter.
fifying qualities. Mr. Tyrannosaurus
undoubtedly took the prize. He was
large and strong enough 10 attack the
great three-horned triceratops, one OF
the most interesting Of the dInosaur
! family. a fine skeleton of which has
recently been set up In the national
museum at Washington This animal
/ had a skull which projected upward
over the neck like nremans hel.
met and over each eye there was q
massive horn directed forward n
third. NUT much smaller horn being
generally just over The nose. He
was about twice the size OF an Gle.
plant, being upward OF twenty-five
feet In height. He weighed about ten
tons.
And the most remarkable fact OF all
II that In the opinion Of Professor
Osborn, and his fellow scientists In
the American Museum Of Natural His.
tory. this same gigantic three.horned
beast was the prey OF the tyrannosau.
rus rex. How scientists should be
able 10 understand that II was the
flesh Of this particular beast that
would be most satisfying to the king
monster OF them all. is one OF those
riddles which the man In the street
has not yet solved. But fresh evil.
dence Of this fact, hitherto only part.
ly suspected. IL now coming 20 light
and Is being carefully traced out OF
the large collections made by the
museum during the past few years.
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