The Red Cloud chief., 1920-08-05

The Brontosaurus, according to the restora-
ton herewith reproduced. doesn't look especially
formidable. except for his size.
70 The dinosaur that seems best able to pay his
way and keep on going Is the Allsaurus. He's got
teeth and claws and looks as II 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 = may De thnt
the fellow Captain Stevens Is after has evoluted
like the rest Of the world and Is prepared to pre-
sent something entirely new In dinosaurs. why
should he not have develOped? He's had Mt least
six million years I'm which to improve himself
'The Outlines Of History" II. g. Wells new
book. considers these early monsters quite FULLY:
He says In one place:
"The earliest-knOwn reptiles were beasts with
great bellies and not very powerful legs, very like
their kindred amphibia, wallowing as the croco-
ollie 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 bal
ance themselves on tail and hind legs, rather as
the kangarOOs do now. Another division was the
crocodile branch, and another developed toward
the tortoise and the turtles. The Plesiosaurs ana
the Ichthyosaurs were two groups which left no
living representatives. PlesiOsaurus measured 800
feet from snOut to tail tip-Of which half was neck.
"The Mosasaurs were n third group Of great por-
pOiselike marine lizards. But the largest and
most diversified group Of these MesOzoic reptiles
Nuo tuC SiouD W z nav ~" W. e'
like, the Dinosaurs. many Of which attained enor-
nous proportions. In bisness 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 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
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.
1t measured well over 100 feet! These greater
monsters had legs. and they are usually figured AS
standing up on them; but II 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.
"An0ther noteworthy type we have fC RID Is the
Triceratops. There We're also a grea. number OF
flesh caters. who preyed upon these hSrbivores.
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
CARGO fashion, on las tail and hind legs. Probably
it reared itself up. Some authorities even sup
pose that 1t leapt through the air. II so, 1t pos
sessed muscles Of n quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably 1t waded, half submerged, In
pursuit Of the berbivorous river saurians."
And along with these terrible beasts were bat
like creatures. "These bat-lizards were the ptero-
dactyls. But birdlike though they We're, they were
not birds, nor the ancestors of birds. The struc-
ture of their wings was that of a hand with one
long finger and n web; the wing Of n bird Is like
an arm with feathers projecting from It's 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 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.
Z at is probably connected with the close Of {
vast period OF equable warm conditions and !"
onset OF "A rev, austerer age, In which the wlntc>
were bltterer and the summers brief. but hot