Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-07-30

m, p.on+osaurus according to the restora-
tion herewith reproduced doesn't look espeeAai''
formidable. except for his size ~
The dinosaur that seems best able to pay ms
way and keep on going is the Ansaurus' 40
teeth and claws and looks as Il ne might "o'e
rapidly a.osorr
However. the fact that the African dinosaur
does not seem to be exactly like any OF ms pIe
historic relatives proves nothing. II NAY Oe a
the fellow Captain Stevens is AFTER mas esoiu.eu
like the rest of the world and IS prepareu - w.
sent something entirely new in dinosaurs. :" ny
should no not have developed? He's nad az Ieds.
six million wears in which to improve nnseiI
.srhe Outlines of History" H. G. WeIis ne"
hook. considers these early monsters quite Iuiiy
He says in one place: 80,
oThe earliest-known reptiles were Deasls Win
preat bellies and not very powerful legs, very IKE
+boir kindred amphibia wallowing as the croco-
die wallows to this day. but in the Mesozolc tney
soon began to stand up and stoutly on all Ious'
and several great sections OF them Desan " Oai-
anoe themselves on tail and hind legs rather as
the kangaroos do now. Another DIVISION was me
crocodile branch and another developed. toward
the tortoise and the turtles. The PleslOsaurs anu
the Ichthyosaurs were two groups which left no
living representatives Plesiosaurus measured oOO
feet from snout to tail tipOf which half was neck.
saThe Mosasaurs were third group Of great por-
poiseike marine lizards But the largest ana
most diversified group Of these Mesozoic reptlies
like the Dinosaurs many of which attained enor-
mons 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
herbivorous animals; they browsed on rusny vege-
tation and among the ferns and bushes or they
stood up and grasped trees with their rorelegs
while they devOured the Foliage.
sAmong the browsers, for example, were the
.D0lodoccus carnegii, which measured "a feet in
length, and the Atlantosaurus. The Gigantosau-
rus disinterred by a German expedition In l9lz
from rocks in East Africa, still more colossal.
It measured well over 100 feet! These greater
monsters had legs, and they usually figured as
standing up on them; but it is very doubtful If
tbav 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 we have figured is the
Triceratops. There were also great number OF
flesh eaters, who preyed upon these herD1Vores.
OF these Tyrannosaurus seems almost the last
word in frightfulness among living things. Some
sneces of this genus measured 40 feet from snout
n fail Apparently it carried this vast body kan
CARGO fashion, on it's tail and hind legs. Probably
II reared itself up. Some authorities even sup
nose that it leapt through the air. If so, 1t pos
sassed muscles of a quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably it waded half submerged, in
pursuit Of the herbivorous river saurians."
And along with these terrible Deasts were pat
like creatures. "These bat-izards were the ptero-
dactyls But birdlike though they were, they were
not birds. nor the ancestors Of BIRDS The struc-
ture Of their wings was that of hand with one
long finger and web; the wing Of bird is like
an arm with feathers projecting from its hind
edge And these pterodactyls had no feathers"
All of these creatures have disappeared from
the face of the earth, Wells says. They ended
abruptly. They were extingushed, 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 most
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 equable warm conditions and the
onset OF 81 new, austerer age, in which the winters
were bitterer and the summers brief, but hot"