The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-07-31

Tho Rrontosaurus according TO the restora-
ffon herewith reproduced doesn't look especl"h!
formidable except for his size
The dinOsaur that seems best able 10 pay MS
way and keep on going is the Allsaurus' ne go
teeth and claws and looks as If he might move
rapidly. ,,u
However the fact that the African dinosaur
does not seem to be exactly like any or his pre-
historic relatives proves nothing. Ii may oe 'n"t
the fellow Captain Stevens is after mas esolu'eu
like the rest of the world and is prepared 10 pre-
sent something entirely new in dinosaurs. why
should he not have DEVELOPER He's hau 1T i'"nt
six million years in which to improve hiihseh-
'The Outlines of History" II. q. NeiIs ne"
hook considers these early monsters quite tuly'
He says in ole place. 80
1.-THE earljest-known reptiles were beasts win
great bellies and not very powerful legs very Ike
their kindred amphibia, wallOwing as the croco-
die wallows to this day but in the MesozOlc they
soon began to stand up and go stoutly on all fourS
and several great sections of them began 10 bai-
ance themselves on tail and hind legs, rather as
the kangaroOs do now. Another DIVISION was ule
crocodile branch, and another developed to"aru
the tortoise and the turtles. The Pleslosaurs anu
the Ichthyosaurs were two groups when le1t no
living representatives. PlesiOsaurus measured SUI
feet from snout to tail tip-of which half was neck
1.-THE Mosasaurs were third group of great por-
pofseIike marine lizards But the largest ana
most diversified group of these Mesozolc reptlleS
was the group we have spoken OF as Kangaroo
like the Dinosaurs, many Of which attained ehor-
nous proportions. In bigness 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 I'D and grasped trees with their foreleSS
while they devoured the foliage.
"Among the browsers, for example, were the
Diplodoccus carnegii. which measured "a feet In
length and the AtlantOsaurus The GlgantoSau-
rus disinterred by German expedition IN l9l-
from rocks in East Africa, vas still more colossal
If measured well over 100 feet! These greater
Monsters had legs. and they usually figured as
standing up on them; but 1t Is very doubtful X
they could have supported their weight III thlS
way out of water BuOyed up by wafer or mud
they may have got along.
another noteworthy type we have figured Is the
Triceratops There were also great number OF
flesh eaters, who preyed upon these herbivores.
OF these Tyrannosaurus seems almost the last
word in 'frightfulness' among living things Some
snec,es of this genus measured 40 feet from snout
to taf Apparently it carried this vast body KAN
paroO fashion on it's tail and hind-legs. PROBABLY
II reared itself up. Some authorities even sup
nose that IL leapt through the air. If So 1t pos
sessed muscles of a quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably 1t waded, half submerged In
nursuit of the herbivOrOus river saurians."
And along with these terrible beasts were bat
like creatures These bat-liZards were the ptero-
dactyls But birdlike though they were, they were
not birds nor the ancestors of birds. The struc-
ture of their wings that of hand with one
long finger and web the wing Of bird is like
an arm with feathers projecting from its 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 extnguished, as though by
the waving of 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.
ut is probably connected with the close of a
vast period of eQuable warm conditions and the
onset of a new, austerer age in which the winters
were bitterer and the summers brief but hot"