The Raymer enterprise., 1920-07-29

OF wind from the side would blow 1t over. 1t Is
ridiculous 10 think that nm animal hundred feet
long would have legs close together In the mid
die and have three-quarters Of It's length sticking
out In front and behind unsupported In the air.
MY Idea Is that the hrontosaurus was a reptile.
practically crocodile with snakeke neck.
anu not n MAMMAL that II carried itself rs
crocodile does. that Is erawled It's belly when
on land and did not walk on straight legs.
Il think II crawed with It's neck drawn back
so us 10 strike like cobra mud most likely Ind
poisonous fangs. In fact. II was a big poisonous
lizard. and that II was brilliantly colored like
them aud perhaps discharged poison through Its
SKIN Ike a toad when lrrltated
The best weapon 10 shoot II with would be
the mngnlfed Mauser rifle. such as the Germans
used against tanks. only with an explosive shell
instead of nm nrmor-percer. II were younger
] should be OF after him."
Anyway, the monster Is sufficiently real 10
have set the scientists disnutIng about his posi-.
billty. his identity and his looks They call him
all sorts Of s-brontosaurus triceratops bro
alosaurus. tylosaurus and so on One expert
writes to the press:
The animal In question can not be a bromo.
surus, II the illustration In H. G. Wells hook
Outlines Of History. are correct The nlustra.
ons show very different creature from the de-
scriplons In the newspapers II this one What
this one really appears 10 he Is triceratops only
that animal has two horns"
Another zoologis heaps scorn on the entire
idea, asserting that while he believes there are
undiscovered animals living In the heart OF Africa
he doubts that a dnosaur or any other prImeval
beast exists anywhere today He writes:
''The period In which they lived Is Incredibly
remote as man counts time. Their bones are
found In the strata Of the Eocene period The
brontosaurus was remarkable for his very small
head and small brain cavity. His whole skull WAS
no larger than his neck hone The name means
thunder beast md one species was well over fftv
feet IN length and weighed probably twenty tons
or more"
The evolution Of man has been n long procass
so long that the geologists and other scientists
prefer TO dodge the question Of the millions of
years Involved and reckon In eras. an era being
anywhere from six to 45 millions OF years Tbss
call the first era Archeozoic; II is ancient hevon
all knowledge. Then comes the Proterozo,c With
It's very primitive forms Of water life. lsstin, "a
millions Of years. The Paleozoic, with fish am
phibIans and land plants. lasted As millions rhs
Mezozoc, the age Of reptiles and amphibians and
OF trees saw the first mammals II lasted IN mn
lions OF years The present era. the CenozoIc has
seen the rise and development Of the highest or.
ueTs oI phIts anu hiiithts anu the apDparanpo oP
man Its duration to date Is put at million wears
SO that's what We are up against when wa
talk OF there being at large In Africa n mrv,vor
u the Age OF Reptiles
Anyway. we know these reptiles actusuv
existed because we find their fossil remains nre,y
much all over the world. Why. these fossils -
so thick out in Utah. U. s. A.. that We have tha
Dnosaur National monument. You see. once ,nn,
a time. the waves Of an open sea rolled over ,ha
spot where now stands Longs peak (14255 feen
king Of the Rockies" In this sea sported tha
marine monster Of long ago and on It's shorss
lived the grutesque creatures Of the Age Of Ron
tiles. Then the Rocky Mountains heayed them.
selves up and his great inland had to run ON
Into the Arctic ocean and the Gulf Of Mex,co .ns
the Pacific. And then the rains washed down ,ha
mountains and filled up the plains with the
scourlngs,
Some of the creatures In this inland ses m,
mIred and their bones are now found petrified IN
remarkably perfect state OF preservation. And
It's no trick for scientist who knows his bust.
ness to reconstruct an animal from his bones.