The Raymer enterprise., 1920-07-29

The Rrontosaurlis according TO the restor1-
fIon herewith reproduced doesn't look especially
formidable except for his size
The dInosaur that seems best able to pay ms
way and keep on going is the Ahsaurus lie eo'
teeth and claws and looks as II he might move
rapidly
However. the faet that the African dinosaur
does NOT seem 10 be exactly like any OF his pre-
historic relatives proves nothing II may be that
the fellow Captain Stevens IL after has eyoluted
Ike fhe rest OF the world and Is prepared to pre-
sent something entirely In dinosaurs. why
should he not have developed? He's had at Least
six million years In which to Improve hmseu
THE Outlines OF History" H. q. Wells new
book considers these early monsters quite fulty
He says In one place:
The earliest known reptiles were beasts with
great bellies and not very powerful legs. very Ike
their kindred amphibia. waowing as the Greco.
die waIlows to this day; but 10 the Mesozoic they
soon began to stand up and 90 soutly on all fours
and several great sections OF them began to bal
ance themselves on tail and hind legs rather as
the kaugaroos do now. Another division was the
crocodile branch. and another developed toward
the tortoise and the turtles. The Plesiosaurs and
the Ichthyosaurs were two groups which left no
living representatives Plesi0saurus measured 3O0
feet from snout to tall tp-of which half was neck.
The Mosasanrs were a third group Of great por-
poiselIke marine lizards. But the largest and
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 great.
Some Of these and the largest among them. were
herbivorous animals; they browsed on rushy yege-
tation and amons the ferns and bushes. or they
etoad u,, and gra spad trees with their forelQRN
while they devoured the foliage.
Among the browsers. for example, were the
DIplodoccus carnegii. which measured "a feet In
length and the Atlantosaurus. The Gigantosau-
rus, disInterred by a German expedition In 1912
from rocks In East Africa was still more colossal.
II measured well over 100 feet. These greater
monsters had legs. and they are usually figured as
standing up on them: but 1t is very doubtful II
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 we have figured Is the
Triceratops There were also a great number Of
flesh eaters, who preyed upon these herbivores.
OF these Tyrannosaurus seems almost the last
word In frightfulness among living things. Some
species Of this genus measured 40 feet from snout
TO tail. Apparently 1t carried this vast body kan
garoo fashion, on its tall and hind legs. Probably
II reared lt3eI up ouHt uutuOttlfs even sup
pose that II leapt through the air. II so II pos
sessed muscles Of quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably II waded. half submerged. ia
pursuit Of the herbvorous river saurians."
And along with these terrible beasts were bat
ike creatures. "These batzards 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 a web; the wing Of a bird Ia like
an arm with feathers projecting from ks 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 extinguIshed. as though By
the waving Of 4 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 he
earth before the coming Of mankind.
ut is probably connected with the close Of 1
vast period Of eQuabe warm conditions and the
onset Of new. austerer age. In which the winter,
we're bitterer and the summers brief hut hot"