The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-12-10
CZEG SAZ12US


of wind from the side would blow It over. 1t is
ridiculous to think that animal hundred feet
long would have legs close together in the mid
die and have three-quarters of its length sticking
out In front and behind unsupported In the air
My Idea Is that the brontosaurus was a reptile,
practically crocodile, with snake-like' neck.
and not a mammal, that 1t carried itself as
crocodile does, that is crawled on its belly when
on land and did not walk on straight legs
Il think 1t crawled with Its neck drawn back
so as to strike like cobra and most likely had
poisonous fangs. In fact 1t big poisonous
lizard, and that II was brilliantly colored, like
them, and perhaps discharged poison through its
skin like toad when irrtated.
"The best weapon to shoot Il with would be
the magnified Afauser rifle, such the Germans
used against tanks, only with explosive shell
Instead Of an armor-piercer If were younger
I should be off after him."
- Anyway, the monster Is sufficiently real to
have set the scientists dsputing about his posi-
bility, his identity and his looks. They call him
all sorts Of Observation-Disclosures. triceratops bro
alosaurus, tyosaurus and on. One expert
writes to the press:
'The animal in question can not be bromo-
surus II the illustration in H. G. Wells book.
Outlines Of History are correct The illustra-
lions show very different creature from the de-
scriptions In the newspapers Of this one. What
this one really appears to be is triceratops, only
that animal has two horns"
idea asserting that while he believes there are
undiscovered animals living in the heart Of Africa.
he doubts that dinosaur or any other primeval
beast exists anywhere today He writes:
'The period in which they lived is incredibly
remote as man counts time Their bones are
found in the strata Of the Eocene period The
brontosaurus was remarkable for his very small
head and small brain cavity. His whole skull was
no larger than his neck bone. The name means
thunder beast and species was well over fifty
feet In length and weighed probably twenty tons
or moreT
The evolution Of man has been a long process
so long that the biologists and other scientists
prefer to dodge the question of the millions of
years involved and reckon In eras, an err being
anywhere from six to 45 millions of years They
cnll the first err Archeozoic IL is ancient beyond
all knowledge. Then comes the Proterozoic with
its very primitive forms OF water life lasting RI
millions Of years. The Paleozoic. with fish am
phIbians and land plants lasted As millions The
Mezozoic. the age Of reptiles and amphlbians and
Of trees, saw the first mammals 1t lasted 1e mil,
lions of years. The present era, the CenozoIc has
seen the rise and development Of the highest or
ders of plants dnd animals and the appearance NJ
man its duration to date is put at million years
So that's what we are up against when we
talk Of there being at large In Africa survivor
of the Age Of Reptiles.
ANYWAY we know these reptiles actu.uv
existed because find their fossil remains prettv
much all the world. Why, these fossils are
40 thick out in Utah. u s. A., that we have The
Dinosaur National monument You see, once mon
n time the waves Of open sea rolled over the
snot where now stands Longs peak ia OK fae,,
"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 Rem
tiles. Then the Rocky Mountains heaved them.
selves up and this great inland sea had to run on
into the Arctic ocean and the Gulf Of Mexico and
the Pacific And then the rains washed down the
scourings
Some Of the creatures In this inland sea got
mired and their bones are now found petrified in
remarkably perfect state Of preservation. And
tn no trick for . scientist who knows his busi-
nsss 70 reconstruct An animal from his bonsA