Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
How the Brontosaugus Was Found.

How the Brontosaurus Was Found
" HEAVY washout caused by freshet
! [ Nin the spring was the immediate cause
II Nof the finding of the great brontosau-
rus at Laramie. Wyo.. in 1909. the
water cut deep gully across the plain and
left the sacrum and few other bones OF
the animal exposed. The bones were not
| found In position. but in heaps. one or the
heaps was uncovered and traces OF another
were found, so there was regular line OF
pointers which greatly facilitated the
search.
The great value OF the find lay In the
fact that the bones belonged TO one individ-
ual brontosaurus and that the skeleton was
nearly complete. Fully threc-fourths OF
the bones of this animal were obtained, IN
GLIDING all the limb bones but two, nearly
all the dorsals and more than one-half the
cervicles. The heaviest bone taken out
was the sacrum estimated to weigh two
thousand pounds. When 1t had been load
ed on a wagon 1t was all a heavy team
could do to start It and move It over roads
as smooth and hard as asphalt.
The prehistoric brontosaurus was an i'm
mense beast, with a short body and an
immensely long tail and neck. The ami
NAL measured seventy-ive to ninety feet
In length over all, and weighed in life
from thirty to fifty tons, according to
Z age. The Gilmore brontOsaurus must have
measured eighty feet in length and eigh-
teen feet in height. Only one or two
large skeletons have ever been uncov-
cred one of these being in the bone room
in the Wyoming State University and the
other in the museum of an Eastern col
lleRe The head of the brontosaurus is
very small in proportion to the size Of the
animal. The dentition is weak there be-
ing but one row of small round teeth In
the upper and under jaws. This shows
that the animal must have lived on very
soft and tender vegetation, probably grow
| ing under water, the brontosaurus feeding
much as the moose of to-day, on lily pads
and rank grasses that flourish in the shall
low, muddy water Of slow running rivers
and lakes.
When the fossils Of Gllmore's bron-
tosaurus were on the cars for shipment
they weighed eighty thousand pounds,
And 1t is estimated that in life the animal
could not have weighed less than forty
tons.
The Manchuria Daily Report, the jap
anese paper published In Niu-Chwang
Manchuria, recently said editorially:-"We
repeat that every inch of Nanehuria un-
der Japanese occupation now has been
bought for a dear price in blood and
money. Hence Japan is its legitimate
owner China has forfeited her suzerainty
over II by once making, so to speak, a
present OF II to Russia
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