Marble Hill press., 1920-07-29

- wind frum N. sid, wouid blow u over II l.
ridiculous 90 think that animal hundred feet
long would have legs close together In the mid.
die and have threequarters of It's length sticking
out IN frunt and behind Unsupported Ia the air
MY idea II thar the bruntoSauru- was u reptile.
practically crUcnliie. with a snskeIlkc neck.
ana not mammal that II carried itself as n
n"codile d"es. thut T.. crHvi-d on It's belly when
g" land aud did not walk on straight legs
u think It cruNlcl with It's meek drawn back
:" ne TO strike Ike oobn and most likely had
p"i-onoas fangS. In fact. It was a big poisonous
lizard aud that Il wnS brilliantly cotarr-i Ike
them and perhaps discharged fol>on through II,
SKIN Ike a i"ad when lrrltaird
The best wraton to shoot DO With would be
the nAgnih-si MHussr rife such - the Germans
used HEainst tanks only with an explosive shell
insi-ad Of arnor-pierCer II were younger
! should be on after him"
ANYWAY. the monster Il sufficiently real 10
hsV" st the socialists dispu,ing about his posi-
hil'iS his identity and his looks They call him
Hil -"ftS NJ namcS-brontosaurts. tricerstops bio.
alosnutas tyiosaurus and 81 on. one expe-.
writes 70 the press:
Tile animal In question not he a bromo
surus Il the illustration In IL. G. Wells book
outlines Of History are correct The iustru.
tons show very different creature from the do
scriptlous In the newspapers Of this one What
this one really appears 10 be Is triceratops only
that animal has two horns
ABcthcr Eooogist heaps scorn on the entire
idea. asserting that while he believes there are
undiscovered animals living In the heart Of Africa.
he doubts that dnosaur or any other prtmeynl
beast exists anywhere today. lie writes;
The period in which they lived Is Incre,iIbly
remote as counts time Their bones are
found in the strata of the EOcene period The
hrontosaurls was remarkable for his very small
head aud small brpin cavity. HIS whole skull wa,
no larger than his neck bone. The name means
thunder beast and species was well over artv
feet In length and weighed probably twenty TONS
more"
Tue evolution OF man has been long procas.
long that the geologists and other scientist.
prefer to dodge the question of the millons a,
years Involved and reckon In eras an era hair,
anywhere from six to Is millions OF years Tb.y
call the frst era Archcozoic: II ia ancten, hayan,
all knowledge. Then comes the ProterozoIc WITH
It's very primitive forms Of water life lastin~ 40
millions Of years. The Paeozoic with dsh am
phIbisns and land plants, lasted IS millions npa
Mezozoic the age OF reptiles and amphiblans and
OF trees, saw the first mammals: It lasted 10 mn
lions Of years, The present ern, the Cenozoic has
seen the rise and development Of the hiybast or
ders of plants and animals and the appearonca =,
man its duration 10 date is put at million YEARS
So that's what we are up against whep ua
talk Of there being at large In Africa survivor
Of the Age OF Reptiles
Anyway We KNOW these reptiles actl,alIv
existed because we find their fossil remains n,a,.
much all over the world. Why, these fosS,ls -
so thick out in Utah, U. s. A, that we have m.
Dinosaur National monument. You see once w.
4 time the waves of an open sea rolled ovar -
SPOT where now stands Longs peak tl4o55 f.sr
King OF the Rockies" In this sea sportaa ~
marine monster Of long ago and on IFS shoras
lived the grotesque creatures of the Age OF Ron
Liles Then the Rocky Mountains hcayed thar.
selves up and this great inland sea had to run ~,
INTO the Arctic ocean and the Gulf OF Mexico and
he Pacific And then the rains washed down the
and flled up the plains with the
'courings.
some Of the creatures In this inland sea ro,
nired and their bones are now found petrif,ed IN
remarkably perfect state Of preservation. And
To no trick for a scientist who knows his bust.
'ess to reconstruct an animal from his bones.