The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-30

man could meet. And Denodnn was
swift and active. built for speed rs
we'll as power. One could neither
dodge him nor olltrun him. and the'a
erage man would be Just about the
size Of prey that he would consider
suitable for a meal
The skeleton stands II feet : inches
high-about twice the height of Il man.
The length from nose to tip Of tail is
~ feet. and for all his slim and ee-
CANT proportions he probably weighed
in life several times as much lis any
lion or tiger.
pr. w. u. Matthew. curator of the
museums department of vertebrate
laleon'olo@y. says that. fortunately for
us. perhaps. the peinodon was n II one
of the beasts our prehistoric anrr>-
tors had Ia contend with. They had
cave-linn> and hNena> and wolves and
great caNe-benrS. not IL mention mann
moths and nu>todnn> and wooIly
rhinocero>">: those We're an lr enough
II they h,d had Il lot Of c:,rnivnrnuS
dinosaurs into III. bargain. they might
have 'e"n wiped out alto-ether Eut
the dinosaurs had al become rxtincf
long before the tire Of the prehistoric
cave men. The De:uolou lived during
the Cretareol> period of the age uf
r.p'il">->nnn sixty odd millions of
wears ago. if We may rely on the cal
cnlafionS based on the alteration of
radio active minerals.
Al that time our Very very remote
ancestors We're litrln representative fur
rN creatures 'iy'n. in trees an quite
to" small "ni incn>picuou> ~ he
troubled by the huge reptiles WHO in
those days he'd he u. nth in fee. I:ut
IN revenge % this di~,iain II has been
>,l-g, Sted, our litlle npn> sllm ancr>-
TORS my have hel'ed Ia bring about
the extinct ~ of the :rrea, 'inn>allri-
an ari~tecracy sucking their eggs.
This SIX 'letnn WAS found three wears
az" BY Char - II S'prtrhery IN The
@r"at G. nyun of the Red Deer riy r
III Nib RIA Tie canyon >no feet deem
md margil5e / by ~1eer walls and bad
land -ui los * the r'rhe~t rr,lo~itorv
for d'no>anr skeletons THAI has Yet
| e"n lfscnt.red II cuts through The
ss;lrt ~ the finest Wheat district If HE
GaraAian Wc>t. and The rollin. p,oi-
RE With is waving fields of IRA n
above. cnIirH SIS nirturn>auelN with the
swiftly flowing river far below AZ Nh,
BOTTOM Of its deem trench. cutting
through the midst Of This great Gene
ferry of creatures of the long ago
En1 IN Dn'n"tlnn'> time. The. conn
Try was very different, both in -ao--
rarhy and climate. \ bread interior
s.a which had once stretched from The
Gulf of NJ Nico IL The Arctic ocean,
WAS gradually Swallowing ami tlliur
MI With marshes. lnw-lying swamIy
forests End >Hvnnnah> in which t!,.
I'tinoh II and other giant reptiles
lived TIL climate. if one max Judge
from the palms. bananas. pIan'ai'~ and
other tropical trees that hnuri>h.l
fi"r" WIS i'nch warmer. h,l, the an
nual growth rings on fossil Tree. trunks
OF hirh Il lin" specimen is on view
in the same hall With the dinn>aur
>keletunSl show that Their" WIS n,
! ISL II dry and II RAINY season: and
There We're many lrrr>--WilIuW> and
tulip trees. >vram"rr> AMI oaks that
we're very much like those IT tsr pres
emit day.
The ani"!ai world WAS far more
Strange. Not only was there NJ IN
Il man or even anything Instantly SUI
costing his future evolution. bat not