Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-11-22

phaut, being inward Of twenty-five
feet In height, He weighed about ten
tons,
And the mosi remarkable fact 0f all
Is that In the opinion OF Professor Os.
born and his fellow scientists in the
American Museum OF Natural History,
this same gigantic th~ree-horEe ! beast
was the prey OF the Tsrannosaurus
Rex. How scientists should be able
TO understand that Il was the flesh
OF this particular beast that would be
most satisfying 10 the king monster
OF them all, Is one OF those riddles
which the nan m tht street has not
yet solved. BM fresh evidence Of this
fact. hitherto only rarity. suspected,
Is now coming 10 light and Is being
carefully traced out of the large coli
lertions made BY the museum during
The past few years.
The story OF how this discovery was
made Is one OF the romances Of sci.
ence. A few years ago Director Horn
aday, Of the New York Geological
| Park. returned from a hunting trip in
the wilds Of Montana. brought the
| curator a fossilized horn which he had
picked up on his trip.
is II OF any valuee" asked the
| sportsman Of the scientist.
"Of no great value In itself" replied
i the curator: but Of exceeding value
, as a clue. We have had many stray
bones OF this animal. but this find
may lead us to a place where there
| will be parts OF this beast which We
have not yet found"
How We Was Found.
The animal 10 which the horn be-
longed was the T~riceratops. The
summer following the return Of Prof.
| Hornaday from Montana. therefore,
1.-THE museum dispatched an expedition
10 that same section Of Montana 70
see II they could ind any o re-
mains Of Triceratops. Mr.. Barnum
Brown. an experienced fossile hunter.
was put In charge Of the party. He
was rewarded with the finding Of ex.
ceedingly valuable remains Of the Tri'
ceratops. but he was still more re-
warded by the hnding Of q few blnes
Of what appeared TO be an animal OF
an entirely different kind. The Tri'
ceratops was a %herbivorous beast. But
the new bones showed clearly that
they had belonged to a flesh eating
lpinosaur. These remains we're en-
bedded in extremely hard sandstone,
| and were extracted onfy with the
greatest difficulty.
Az the bones Of the new c~arnivorous
beast represented different parts OF
| his body. Professor Osborn calculat-
ed that further excavation would re-
veal additional portions OF the same
| skeleton. Accordingly a new exp
| d1ion was sent out last summer under
Mr.. Brown and most careful prepara-
lions we're made for further tfxpiora-
ton. The clifi under which IL prSf
|vf3w~yprtimens had 'bsShsfd6~
thoroughly cleared. and blasting OF a
most careful and delicate character
was undertaken from the top down.
ward.
AZ a result Of this work additional
| remains Of the wonderful Tyranno-
saurus Rex came to life as the summer
| wore on. so that Il is now announced
| that representative portions OF the
entire body have ben secured. Scien-
fists will look forward to a study Of
the character Of this newly ound
monster with the greatest curiosity.
How he lived. and what his general
characteristics we're will be subjects
Of the most minute investigation.
Doubtless paiecontologists will be
able TO tell the world how much flesh
this beast would consume a day, what
the sire Of his brain was. how long
he lived, and at what period in the
close Of the great Age Of Reptiles he
fought his battles for existence, fol-
Just as astronomy, by an analysis q
ytue SOtdI SpCCNtu VII, u ooiS
out the physical characteristics o.
La distant star, 50 is paleontology able
by examination Of stray bones. tc
describe the habits Of animals who
lived In the Western States Of North
America when the Rocky mountains
we're still young and the new bare
ana arid Western plains . land
81 lakes, rivers and luxuriant vegeta'
tion..
These came Western regions are be
lieved by palecontologists 10 be still
full Of buried skeletons Of byeone
days. Many is the hunter roaming
through forests or along some un'
charted chasm in the Rockies who
sees curious bones projecting from
stones. These may be of priceless
value to the science. He should leave
them alone and. send word immediate
liz to The American Museum of Natu'
raj History in New York. or TO one
Of the other great museums Of the
country. Great may be his reward
and greater still the reward of science