The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-08-05

The Rrontosaurus according to the restora-
ton herewith reproduced. doesn't look especiaiS
formidable except for his size
The dinosaur that seems best aDle 10 pay MS
Hay and keep on going is the Allsaurus. He's got
teeth and claws and looks as if he might move
rapidly.
However, the fact that the African dinosaur
does not seem to be exactly Ike any OF his pre-
historic relatives proves nothing. 1t may be that
the fellow Captain Stevens is after has evoluteo
like the rest OF the world and is prepared 10 pre-
sent something entirely new in dinosaurs why
should he not have DEVELOPER He's mao at least
six million wears in which to improve himself
1.-The Outlines of History" H G. Wells new
book considers these early monsters quite Iuiiy'
He says in one place;
tsFhe arliest-known reptiles were beasts with
great bellies and not very powerful legs very ike
their kindred amphiba, wallowtng as the croco-
die wallows to this day; but in the Mesozoic they
soon began to stand up and go stoutly on all Tours
and several great sections Of them began TO DaI-
snce themselves on tail and hind legs, rather as
the kangaroos do now. Another division was tne
crocodile branch, and another developed TOWARD
the tortoise and the turtles. The Ples1osaurS anu
the Ichthyosaurs we're two groups which le1t no
living representatives Plesiosaurus measured 300
feet from snout to tail tp-Of which half was neck
1.-THE AIesasaurs were third group of great pOr-
poiseIike marine lizards. But the largest ana
most diversified group of these MesozOic reptiles
was the group have spoken of as kangaroo
like the Dinosaurs, many of which attained enor-
nous proportions. In bigneSs these greater Dino
saurs have never been exceeded, although the sea
can still show in the whales creatures as great.
Some of these and the largest among them, were
herbiyorous animals; they brOwSed on rushy vege-
tation and among the ferns and bushes. or they
stood up and grasped trees with their forelegs
while they devoured the foliage.
Among the browsers, for example, were the
DipIodoccus earneg which measured "a feet in
length and the AtlantOsaurus. The GigaAtosau-
rus Gisinterred by a German expedition in 1912
from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal
4oll oT-or foot hose
monsters had legs, and they usually figured as
standing up on them but it is very doubtful If
they could have supported their weight in this
way out of water. Buoyed up by water or mud
they may have got along
Another noteworthy type have figured is the
TriceratOps- There were also great number OF
flesh eaters, who preyed upon these herbvores
OF these TyrannOsaurus seems almost the last
word in frightfulness' among living things. Some
secies OF this genus measured 10 feet from snOut
10 tail Apparently it carried this vast body kan
CARGO fashion its tail and hind legs Probably
If reared itself up Some authorities sup
pose that it leapt through the air. If so, it pos
sessed muscles Of a quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably IT waded. half submerged. In
pursuit OF the berbivorous river saurians"
And along with these terrible beasts bat
like creatures These bat-Iizards were the ptero-
dactyls But birdIike though they were they were
not birds, the ancestors Of birds The struc-
ture OF their wings was that OF a hand with one
long finger and a web; the wing Of bird is like
an arm with feathers projecting from Its hind
edge And these pterodactyis had no feathers
All OF these creatures have disappeared from
the face OF the earth, Wells says. They ended
abruptly. They were extinguished, as though by
the waving OF a magic wand, perhaps in order to
make place for man and Wells says that the end
ing Of the reptiles Is beyond all question the NEST
striking revolution IN the whole history OF the
earth before the coming OF mankind.
sit is probably connected with the close OF a
vast period Of equabIe warm conditions and the
onset OF a new austerer age In which the winters
were Bitterer and the summers brief, but hot"