The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-28
KING OF BEASTS
ROVED IN MONTANA
THE MOST GIGANTIC ANIMAL OF
ALL FOUND AT LAST! \


the Largest Flesh-Eating Land AMI
NAL in the World.
Kansas City Star.
Out Of the rocks in northern Montana
scientists have dug the skeleton Of the
real king Of beasts. An expedition sent
out, by the American Museum Of Nat
ural History in New York. has just re-
flesh eating land animal thus far known
to the world. This constitutes one of
the most remarkable finds in the recent
history of paleontology.
The curator Of the department. of
vertebrate paleontology of this museum,
Professor Henry F. Osborn, under whose
direction the expedition was sent out,
has conferred upon this newly discOv-
cred monster the title "Tyrannosaurus
Rex In plain English this means
the "'Tyrant King Of Saurian," or the
King Of Tyrant Saurians.
| The remains of this dentzen7 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 if they were full Of
j diamonds-for to science this discovery
is more important than that Of q great
many, diamonds. A large force Of
skilled workmen will be detailed to the
! job, every bone will be placed in it's
proper place in the skeleton, missing
paris, and in few months the COM
pleted skeleton will be placed on ex-
hibition in the halls Of the museum
where visitors may see what this king
of beasts a few million years ago was
like.
Monster Thirty-Nine Feet Long.
Enough parts Of this animal have
mate quite exactly what his size was.
From the end Of his tail to the front
of his nose he probably measured about
80 feet. The distance from his skull
as normally poised, to the ground, would
be about 10 feet-more than three times
the height of an ordinary human skele-
ton. 1T a. - :. 81. -. :, f~qsfsl, /
discovery that it has n ne a re re
classification Of the carniverous dino
saurs of the Cretaceous geological pc
Rod. Tyrannosaurus now becomes the
name of new genus: These fiesh-eat
ing dinosaurs of the latter part of the
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have been far more diversified than hac
been supposed. The particular hobby
Of these creatures seems to have been
to make life miserable for all the her
biverous dinosaurs of the period.
! One Of the newly named forms is thai
of Dynamosaurs-FP Powerful LIZARDS
It seems that their particular prey was
the duck-billed dinosaur or Iguanodont
The Igunanodonts were partly protect
along the SIDES Of Of the body: Anothe
midaeI7Bird MimicEers, - who wer
relatively small but. extremely swift
footed. ',''>~' ''-,.- '.. :
The 'Tyrant's Prey
Es fG sus sa SisRf 4 aEa ethsr tel
undoubtedly took the prize. He wa
large and strong enough to attack tn
great three-horned Triceratops, one o
the most interesting Of the Dinosau
family, fine skeleton of which ha
aseah at 5seR Was6 5 f in t his Ns shfm
lhad a skull which projected upwar'
over the neck like freman's helmet
and overaeach eye there was a massiv
horn directed forward, a third but niue
the nose. He was about twice the siz
Of an elephant, being upward OF rs fee
! in height. He weighed about ten ton
, And the most remarkable fact Of a
is that in the opinion of Professor o.
k h1ne can M MI aTo Of Ns Is Il
this same gigantic horned beas
was the prey Of the Tyrannosauru
Rex. How scientists should be able t
"a understand that it was the flesh Of thi
is particular beast that would be mos
d satisfying to the king monster Of thel
t. all is one Of those riddles which th
> man in the street has not yet solved
10 But fresh evidence of this fact, hithe
IS to only partl ysuspected, is now comm
20 to only partly suspected, is now comm
It out Of the large collections made b
/ the museum during the past few year
The story of how this discovery we
made is one Of the romanees Of seienc
A few years ago Director Hornaday {
the New York Geological park, return
q ing from a hunting trip in the wilds I
= Montana, brought the curator a fossil
a lied horn which he had picked up
y his trip. . u.s.. ~- 4s @ EsSs5
r. els it of any value}a'' asked It'll
70 sportsman of the SCIENTIST & s
IS "Of no great. value III ITSELF #
ID piled the curator, "but of exceedin
4, value as a clew. We have had man
stray bones of this animal, but til
Is find may lead us to place where the
1T will be parts of this beast which "
"a "a had not yet found.' s"@9
g How He Was Found.
Q; The animal to which the horn h
99ee longed was the Triceratops. The SUI
~ mer following the return of Profess
Hornaday from Montana, therefore, t.
j museum dispatched an expedition
a that same section, of Montana to s
~ it they could find any more renal
w, Of Triceratops. Mr.. Barnum Brown,
,es experienced fossil hunter, was put,
,,od charge of the party. He WasareWard
taf with the finding Of exceedingly Walt
ali BILE remains Of the Triceratops, but
gu was still more rewarded by The fndi1
m m Of few. bones of what appeared
tos be an animal of an entirely differe
rn' kind. The Triceratops was a herbivt
ar GUS beast; but the new bones show
our clearly that they had belonged to
III hesh-eating Dinosaur. These rema;
were imbedded in extremely hard SAL
R stone and were extracted only with t
greatest difficulty.
AS the bones Of the new carnivoro
) beast represented different parts Of
body, Professor Osborn calculated IL
~ further excavation would reveal ad
ID tional portions Of the same skelet
Accordingly a new expedition was 81
rea out last summer under Mr. Brown q