New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-07-30

of wind from the side would blow It over. 1t Is
Ridiculous TO think that an animal n hundred feet
long would haze legs close together in the mid
die and have three-Quartcrs Of its length sticking
out in front and behind unsupported in the air.
My idea Is that the brontosaurus was a reptile,
practically n crocodile, with a s~nakelike neck.
ana not Il mammal, that II carried itself rs "A
crocodile does, that is. crawled on its belly when
on land and did not walk ON straight legs.
II think IT crawled with its neck drawn back
so ms to strike like u cobra and most likely bad
n"!solo,ls fnngs. In fact, ii was a big poisonous
lizard. and. that ii was brilliantly colored. like
them. and perhaps discharged poison through its
skin like a toad when irritaterl.
The best weapon TO shoot 1t with would he
the niagniied MnIrSer rifle. such rs the Germans
used against tanks. only with an explosive shell
instead of an armor-piercpr. If ! were younger
] should be off after him" e. " "'
T.. Anyway, the monster Is sufficiently real to
have set the scientists disputing about his posi-.
billy. his identity and his looks. They cafl hIm
all sorts of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. triceratops, bro
aidsaurus, tylosaurus and so on" One expert
writes 10 the press:
The animal in question can not he n bromo-
sirius, If the illustration in H.. q. Wells book,
Outlines of History are correct. The !llustra.
tiohS' show n very different creature from the de.
s%cfiptidns in the newspapers Of this, one. What
This one really appears to he is Il triceratops, only
that animal has two horns"
Another hooloeist heaps scorn ON the entire
idea, asserting that Willie he believes there are
undiscovered animals living in the heart of -Africn.
he. DOUBTS that n dinoSaur or any other primeval
beast exists anywhere today. He writes:
= - 'Tlr', period. in which they lived is Incredibly
'rrmote ,as man counts. time. Their, bones are
found In the strata of the Eocene period, The
brontosa tfrss was remarkable for his VERY small
head and small brain cavity. His whole skull was
no larger than his neck bone. The mime means
thunder beast and one species was well over fifty
feet in length and weighed probably twenty tons
or more '''' 70 " e..
The evolution of man has been a long process
so long that the gcoioglsts and other scientists
prefer to dodge the question Of the. millions of
years involved and reckon in eraS. an ero beinc
anywhere from six TO ~ millions. of years. They
call the first era Archeozoic II IL ancient beyond
NIL knowledge. Then Games. the ProterozoIc with
it's very primitive. forms of" water life, lnstipp ~
miili6as cf years. The Paleozoic. with fish. am.
~phibians and land plants. lasted ~ millions. The
Mezozoic, the age of reptiles and amphibians and
of trees, saw the first mammals 1t lasted I6 mil.
lions of years. The present era. the Cenozotc has
seen the rise and development of the blpbes, ,r
ders of plants and animals and the appearance n,
man: its duration to date is put Mt q million years
SO that's what We are up against when wa
talk of there being at large in Africa a survivor
Of the Age Of Reptiles. .s
anyway. we know these reptiles act,.Iiv
existed because we find their fossil remains rro,,,
much all over the world. Why. these fossils =
so thick out In Utah. L. :. A.. that. we bovo Tho
pinoSaur National monument. You see. once ma,
a time. the waves of an open sea rolled o,ar 3D.
spot where now stands Longs peak u4ol, fee,,
King of the Rockies" In this sea sported tho
marine monster Of long ago and on its Shores
lived the grotesIue creatures Of, the Age of Ron.
tiles. Then the Rocky Mountains heayed ,bs,n
selves up and this great inland sea had TO run off
into The Arctic ocean and the Gnlf of. Mexico ami
the Pacific. And then the rains washeti down I'M
aud filed up the plains with the
some. of the creatures in this INLAND sea .cot.
mired and their bones are now found petrified IN.
remarkably perfect stale Of preservation. And
no trick for a scientist. WHO Knows his bust
ness to reconstruct an animal from his bones.