The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-08-28
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OF wind from the side would blow itr II is
ridiculous to think that an animal a bred feet
long would have legs close together the mid
dle and have three-quarters Of its Ter sticking
out in front and behind unsupported the air
My idea is that the brontosaurus Wa reptile
practically crocodile with a snake neck
ana not mammal, that It carriefelf az
crocodile does that is, crawled on itely when
on land and did not walk on straghgs.
Il think it crawled with It's neckawn back
so as to strike like cobra and mdIkely had
poisonous fangs. In fact 1t was poisonous
hzard, and that it was brilliantly ored like
. them- and perhaps discharged poisohrough its
S skin like toad when irritated
Inc best weapon to shoot It would be
sIhe magnifed Mauser rifle, such ase Germans
used against tanks only with an eosive shell
instead of an armorpercer If re younger
l should be off after him.
Anyway, the monster IS sufficfly real to
have set the scientists disputing att his posi-
bility his identity and his looks ay call him
all sorts OF names-brontosaurus. trratOps, bro
alosaurus, tylosaurus and so on One expert
writes to the press:
THE animal In question can NOE bromo-
surus, If the illustration In H. GNells' book.
Outlines Of History are correct rhe iustra-
tons show very different creaturfrom the de-
scriptions in the newspapers Of tt one. What
this one really appears to be is a teratops, only
that animal has two horns"
Another zoologist heaps scorun the entire
idea. asserting that while he bellies there are
undiscovered animals living Ia the art Of Africa.
he doubts that dnosaur or anyther prlmeval
beast exists anywhere today Fl writes:
THE period in which they liM IS incredibly
remote as man counts time 1eir bones
found in the strata Of the EoceI period. The
brontasaurus swas remarkable fonts very small
head and small brain cavity His hole skull was
larger than his neck bone. Tie name means
thunder beast and one species wi well over fifty
feet in length and weighed prodigy twenty tons
or more"
The evolution Of man has bee long process
so long that the biologists andbther scientists
prefer to dodge the question offhe millions Of
years involved and reckon In ers, an era being
anywhere from six to 45 millionsof years They
call the first era Archeozcic; 1t ancient beyond
all knowledge Then comes the roterozoic with
Its very primitive forms Of waite life lasting 33
millions of years. The PaleOzoi with fish, am
phibians and land plants, lasted millions. The
Mezozoic, the age of reptiles ano amphibans and
OF trees saw the first mammals it lasted 16 mil
lions Of years. The present era, he Cenozoic has
seen the rise and development the highest or
ders Of plants and animals and ie appearance Of
man; It's duration to date IS put 6 million years
talk Of there being at large In Africa survivor
Of the Age Of Reptiles.
anyway. we know these reptiles actually
existed because we find their fossil remains pretty
much all over the world. Why these fossils are
30 thick out in Utah. U. s. A. that we have the
Dinosaur National monument. 1ou see once upon
3 time, the waves Of open SEA rolled over the
spot where now stands Longs peak 14.255 feeU,
King Of the Rockies" In this sea sported the
marine monster Of long ago and on Its shores
lived the grotesque creatures Of the Age Of Rep
lies Then the Rocky Mountiins heaved them
selves up and this great inland sea had to run off
INTO the Arctic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and
he Pacific And then the rains washed down the
and filed up the plains with the
Some Of the creatures In this inland sea got
nired and their bones are now found petrifed In
remarkably perfect state Of preservation. And
is no trick for scientist who knows his bust
less to reconstruct an animal from his bones.