The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

IS At the present moment the remains
sof this denizen of%the past are being
sshipped to New York in a number of
#carefully made. boxes, some of the boxes
Ssweighing over, two tons. When these
Sold bones arrive, they will be examined
g;anl cleaned with as much care as if they
swere full of diamonds-for to science
Sthis disvovery:sis more important than
sthat of y greatsmany' diamonds. large
sforce of skilled workmen will be de-
placed in it's proper place in the skele-
@ton, missing bones will be modelled out
ssof plaster of paris, and in few months
gthe completed skeleton will be placed
Sson exhibition in the halls Of the museum
where visitors may come and see what
sthis king Of beasts a few million years
4ago was like. 2 = ''-~
II Monster Thirty-nine Feet Long.
q Enough parts of this animal have been
found to make it possible to estimate
2quite exactly what his size was. From
Nthe end of his tail to the front Of his
anose he probably measured about thirty
snine feet. The distance from his skull,
Gas normally poised; to the ground would
sbe about nineteen feet-more than three
shines the height of an ordinary human
skeleton. A drawing showing the COM
sparative sizes of the tyrannosaurus rex
sand the human skeleton has been placed
aference is shown to be about like that
sbetween an ostrich and an ordinary
9barnyard hen. The present restoration
-is, however, entirely preliminary.
OF such Importance to science is this
discovery that it has necessitated a re-
classification Of the carnivorous dino
tsaurs of the cretaceous geological period.
5sTyrannosaurus now becomes the name
sof new genus. These fesh-eating di-
5nosaurs Of the latter part of the age
--of reptiles now show themselves to have
4been far more diversified than had been
supposed The particular hobby Of these
creatures seems to have been to make
life miserable for all the herbivorous di-
fnosaurs of the period.
4, One of the newly-named forms is
that of the dynamosaurs-s' powerful
saizal ds.' 1t seems that their particular
prey was the duck-billed dinosaur OF
iguanodont. The iguanodonts were
'aplates located along the sides of the
Body Another interesting family was
sthe ornithomimidae- mimick
sers,' who were relatively small but ex
stremely swift footed. -. :..
s. The "Tyrant's Prey
But for real bigness and other terrify
ing qualities, Mr.. Tyrannosaurus un
sdoubtedly took the prize: He was large
aand strong enough to attack the great
sthree- horned triceratops, one of the
most interesting of the dinosaur family
"a fine skeleton of which has recently
been set up in the National Huseum al
washington. This animal had a skull
(which projected upward over the neck
like fireman s helmet, and over eacl
eye there was massive horn directed
forward, third, but much smaller hor1
being generally. just over the nose. HI
SWas about twice the size Of an elephant
being upward of twenty-five feet il
height. He weighed about ten tons.
& And the most remarkable fact of al
lis that in the opinion of Professor Os
sborn and his fellow scientists in tn,
MsAmerican Museum of. Natural History
This same gigantic, three horned beas
was the prey Of the tyrannosaurus rex
So How scientists should be able to under
astand that lit was the flesh of this par
ttticular beast that would be most satisfy
ing to the king monster of them all i
q zone of those riddles which the man il
the street has not yet solved But fresl
evidence of this fact, hitherto onk
partly suspected, is now coming to ligh
;and is being carefully traced out Of tn
darge collections made by the museum
sluring the past few years.
The story of how this discovery wa
made is one of the romances Of science
"a few years ago Director Nornaday, O
the New York olegieal park return