Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-20
HORSES SMALL AS FOXES.
Explorer Declares That Wyoming Was
Once Lilliputan World.

Tina WYOMING was once 4 iliipulian
world, occupied by pygIny animals il tho
likeness Of animals Oh earth today is tie
scientific fact which pa,eontologist- 81 lln
Nov: ming State University are preparing
t" give to tire world. Horses no lar.se,.
than modern foN. beavers the size Of
mice, ard ether animals built upon TIL.
same miniature lines are row known to
nave existed i'll The mountains Of this
state thousands Of years ai,o, and their
skeletons ART raw being SIT IN in tn,
museum Of the Stale university h. Prot.
w l.! Reed. pal"nnio!c-ist OF the rri-
ve.s:tv al.d cllrt1or u liz. II lr>c,tm or
natural histcIv II tl:;,t institution I.roi
iced las spent the entire SIMMER il: thn
s1"at fossil hcds. Of Central Wyomii.-
and saws Lis discoveries therein are
among the rost important ever reporir,;
10 science. II the past the discoveries in
built rfrt' Tremendous lines nlorstcrs g.
p:"'!i"i"u* -izc ;,ll te.ncity hut the lis
cortl1as ut r1t'i, l.-il.. ~ ;'1uf Reed
~ ~ fnt! ~. r"at,: SIS between tile ami
nlais Of that ancient time wtr" as great
q "'t's't q boz 81 .Iilliputia and B:-o',-
'ir"I"= IN i1':. II Dear swift Hal hap
l','i."d int. ''"HlaE Wva&iu" in troAa
daNS T." y !cht trI" believed u" had a,-
ualIv reached Iillip till
II S~cJ'rI- III fha fossil of TIC Iti.lr horse
tor. cld th:.t Wyrntins was thc r.i
lnth%.ar" IF TIC ,'crs", II ha~ an al
wan E"Fs"- Show ne that animal 10 na,.
been =" larger Ian :, fox 81 lie nresrnf
".iN. h'it With crcly bon.. II TIN, present
7. y" AMI IN much the same share The
iit'!' Hninai was evidently :, hare. ...az-
cr. caIa"l'. If ni'Iri hardship i'll SECURING
is food -tu,k cvcn i'll tkat early ,iav thc
horsc showed great swittn"ss Of faot and
possessed speed sufficient to c!ablc it to
80 "1t of th2 clutches NJ ii-rh-caiini.
anin"is
Brt Pref. Reed attaches more imror-
taace to the fossil beaver than 10 d"
morse. even. Tie BEAVER is from HE ali
@orrnc tertiary age one of the oldest III
Which fossils arr found. and shows tntt
til'j :iEinal flntnish"d at bat ";'t ~ f"'ri'.i
N n rG fxls t ,,, sP ~ III :
dent The skull is less than halt an inch
ln?" and shows the beaver Of That acr
I" have been even smaller thar an orii-
nary mouse. TIE moiars only an
eighth of an ircl' loI:s5 ana tie incisors
Prof Reed was also fortunate enough ~
secure th, complete skeleton If :, do. ~
he niicocenc tertiary c"r. rot bon.. he
ing Irissinc. me sllelrton is about ti.o
Bnt if some 81 tbs animals discovered
b. Prof Reed were snail others he pick
eG IN vert Ia the other extreme in Size.
An important md vas the almost com
picte skull of q caIf titanoth",ium /,
monster Of that day, which was extinct
Ions: before some Of the oldest fossils
heretofore found were even creatci.
Not the least Interesting Of tho fris
tusk indicating IN animal weighing abonl
1900 ponnds Thc iusil is Complete. hut IL
in three pieces, and shows an animal
Which mmct have been terror. to the
one Of the great lizard family WIS dis
covered IN sandstone cliff where il can
he seen stretched out its FIJI length high
~ on ne lace Of the huff Nearly sew
York Fress