El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-27

the mightest carnivore -(devOurer OF
flesh that as far as We know. ever
inhabited the earth You will readily
believe it when you look At the giant
skeleton
The tremendous head. with its great.
Wide-opening jaws and terrible teeth.
and the strength Of the massive limbs,
tel the story. Why. being a carnivor-
Gus animal and consequently a hunter
OF prey. the tyraunosaur should have
been furnished with so long and heavy
a tail is point not easy to settle
Perhaps the tail could be used as
hUddled group Of small prey. or cut
tins down bigger anims Is like q
scs the The preponderating weight
end strength Of the two legs on which
the animal reared itself I'D rather sug-
Eest that They furnished at the same
time firm anchorage and a pivot
But. whatever use the tErannosaur
may have been able 10 make OF his
tail in the possession OF il he con
formed TO the anatomical fashion OF
his time. which was the barrel shaped
or torpedo shaped age Of the Dino
SaUrS- ~ neLner they were vegetable
feeders or flesh eaters. these brob-
olnEnagian creatures almost invar-
ianly had bodies, running away behind
into long, flexible tails
The tyrannosaur was a stupid beast.
but he lived with beasts many OF
which were vet stupider than himself
so that he was at no disadvantage in
that respect II he had had a brain
proportional TO his physical stature
and muscular strength he would have
been the lord and master Of the earth.
One OF the strangest facts dIscOv-
cred about these wonderful beasts is
that they combined in their makeup
the anatomical peculiarities of reptiles
and birds Their grelt bones are
pneumatic. or hollow. like those of
birds This enabled them TO grOw so
large without being too heavy to han
die themselves There are many wavs
III which the skeleton OF the tvraunO-
s1ur resembles that of a gigantic bird
Air. Barnum Brown. The discoverer
OF lnese marvellous remains in the
bad lands OF Montana points out
Ipr ms lance. that seen from the rear.
the pe-vls Of the tyrannosaur has "the
narrow. hirdike construction while
the massive hind limbs bend forward
at the knee. as in birds. instead %
outward IS in crOcOdiles ani lizards
The huge. birdlike claws and the poise
OF the animal as viewed from the side
give the impression Of q fighting
cock. and one wonders il when rvrau-
uos1urs fought with one another they
sWunG their Spu~s like champions of
the pit IL could hardly be that the
Srea-. flexible tails played no part in
such battles
When the museum authorities have
convicted the group. OF which ire
skeleton we have been talking Of con
SulnreS paw. they viii have placed
before The public perhaps the most re-
marka bic representation Of life upon
tliS planet i'm pre-human ages that has
ewes been conceived
The group is intended TO show a
scene. enacted three million years agO.
on fEc shore OF any western lagoon
lt.-Y he where III paso now stands
where gigantic. herhivorous tracho-
don coming ashore to feed. has been
f-l-ir1 hy a " anuoSa-r- rs the mon
ter De devourins it's prey another 81
us own species approaches and pre-
p1frS Go do battle FOR the prize. The
two combatants win be shown in atti-f
tuUes of attacSs and defence The au-t
thurlry Tor the repres entltion is fur
mSne1 by the Imagination OF the -eOI-
oEist working upon the facts supplied
hV his science