Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
oLDEN DAY CEMENT BEASTS
Monster Model. AZ HsmburE True to
Animal Ltfe Ten Million
Years AGO.

News has come to the curators Of the
American Museum Of Natural History. Just
al this time. when all the museum staff
is excited over the finding Of the bones
Of a dinosaur In the red shele OF the Pail
sades, that prehistoric zoo has been
opened on the outskirts Of Hamburg, Ger
many, many OF the animals Of which were
modelled after rare specimens in the
museum here
The prehistoric zoo has been described
TO the curators as place which II a
fellow happened to stumble into night
after a Christmas celebration, would prob
ably induce him to sit up on the front seat
OF the water wagon for the rest Of his
days Some thirty or more beasts have
been erected in this park. which is con
Quoted by an enterprising German named
Carl Hagenbeck Not one OF the beasts
lived on earth within the last $4,000
years. and some knew It at a much earlier
date than that
The weird creatures are built OF cement.
around a little lake. the purpose being TO
show Just how such lake and landscape
might have appeared some 100000 years
ago II any one had CHANGED to come along
that way.
There are dinosaurs Of various kinds. in
GLIDING big flesh-eating brute forty-eight
feet long. q dipludocus siNty-six feet long
and an iguanadou the great hcrbivorous
dinosaur which won its living by npping
off the tops OF trees twenty-five feet or
more above the ground. There is also the
triceratops with three horns on its huge,
rough face and a collar Of fence spikes
about it's neck. OF course there is the
sloth. and the dodo and the mammoth,
and flying reptiles. with vast spread OF
wings: birds with teeth which resemble
railroad spikes and giant lizards, tor
toises, and toads which suggest the present
animals Of those names but are some
thousands Of times larger. For instance.
some Of the tortoises and even the toads
are more than twelve feet long.
Mr. Hagenbeck conceived the idea that
il would be q good plan to let people see
what kind Of animals had possession of
the earth before they came upon the scene.
So he sent a first class animal sculptor to
all Of the great natural history museums
of the world to make an exhaustive study
of the greatest and most grotesque ami
mails which had ever inhabited the earth
lie found much Of what he wanted at
the South Kensngton museum in London,
and then came on here, whore the Ameri-
can Museum OF Natural History furnished
him with many drawings and measure
ments. He was particularly DESTROYS to
have his prehistoric animals of cement
true to life.
For example, the diplodocus in the Ha-
genbeck park is an exact copy of the
skeleton Of the same animal in the museum
here with the addition of having the flesh
on. This skeleton is the most perfect Of
it's kind in the world. 1t was obtained
eleven years ago from the Bone Cabin
quarry, in central Wyoming, and is built
up of seven-tenths of the animals own
bones
Perhaps the most remarkable looking
animals in the park besides the giant diplo-
docus and the iguanadon are the bats,
They are in reality dragons, with great
wings, the very membranes of which have
been preserved in the rocks through mil
lions Of years.-New York Times.