Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-05
IN THE DAYS NEWS
En Expiorer's Work In Africa.

Speaking of the brontosaurus, if any one ever did one might paraptrase GaIett Burgess:
 T never saw a dinosar,
 1 never hope to see one"
 Yet, according to reports accredited to M. Capeil. Belgian explorer. a Eve dinosaur, a brcntosaurus, has been found in Africa.
 Now that the dinosaur is with us, potentially, big game enthusiasts will be interested in this description of prehistoric big game, quoted from communication to the National Geo. l gra phic Society by Barnum Brown:
 Today we must go to Africa for the l biggest game; but there was time in l the dim distant past when America produced animals larger than any now 1 living That was so long ago that nothing 1emaiIls of these creatures except their bones, and they are turn ed to stcne.
 .sThe animals are dinosaurs; for the moment we win call them lizards not the creeping, crawling kind, but | the huge reptiles that stalked upright 1 through the jungles rivaling ip size the elephant, the hippotamus, and the rhinoceros.
 .'The place is Alberta, Canada, and the time of their existence 5000. .009 years ago.
 "In these marshes of prehistoric times dwelt a host of reptiles, some large, some small and of various forms, flesh eaters and herb eaters, but all sharing certain characters in common and known as dinosaurs. Not aEy were closely related to any living treplile, yet they had some characters common to the lizards, crecodiles, ard birds
 | "Of the kinds characteristic of Ire period one species, an herb eater named Trachodon, was more than 50 feet long and about 15 feet high when
 standing erect. Its head, with broadly
 expanded mouth, resembles that of a
 tuck, but back of the beak there c1 e
 more than 1000 small teeth, disposed
 in many vertical rows, each containing
 several individual teeth, the new one:
 coming up from below as the old ones
 wore out.
 "The long hind legs terminated in
 three large hoofed toes. and the short
 CT, slender front feet were partly webbed. A long, thin, slender tail act
 ed as powerful swimming organ and the body was covered with rough . tuberculate skin Having no means of defense, it lived chiefly in the water
  flesh eaters.
 Along the shores lived Ornitfo-
 minus, bird mimic, as the name inn
 plies one the most remarkable o1 the dinosaurs A skeleton found IT 1918 shows it to have been a toothless
 creature, the jaws sheathed like the beak of a bird.
 The bones were light and pneu-
 natic like those of birds, but the skele- ton closely resembles that of the flesh.
 eating dinosaurs IL was about F fee
 in length, with long, slender hind leg and shorter front legs. This was al agile creature, different from the typl teal flesh eaters in feeding habits an' :, doubteless a shore living type tha
 may have fed on crustaceans. ''On land there were hoofed quadru pedal herbivorous kinds, some, lik
 Monoclonius. having an immense skull 5 six feet in length, with three horns, short one over each eye and a longe one above the nose The jaws termin c ated in a sharp clipping beak, hk : that of a turtle, and further back j
 the mouth there were rows of double 2 rooted teeth. The back of the sku :; was developed into broad shield, wit " scalloped border. extending over tn = meek. It was ancestral to the late :, Triceratops.
 4 "Strangest of all was the herbivor ,' ous, a stock, short-legged big bodie {, creature, completely encased in armo s Dermal plates covered the skull. follow ' ed by rings of plates over the nee q and rows of flat plates over the bae if and hips. Its tail terminated in .d huge club. and the belly was covere d by a pliable mosaic of small, close s'
 plates. It was further protected by = movable plate that could be droppc down ike shutter over eacn ey It thus competing US protection ITO