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

Tho Rrontosaurus according to the RESTORE
tion herewith reproduced, doesn't look especihhy
formidable. except for his size ,,s
The dnosaur that seems best aole 10 Pus 49,,
way and keep going is the Aiisaurus. 80
teeth and claws and looks as If he might move
rapidly ,,,osour
However the fact that the African uinosaui
does not seem to be exactly like any OF MS Pie
historic relatives proves nothing. IL may oe u"
the fellow Captain Stevens Is AFTER mas evoiu'e
like the rest of the world and Is prepared ~ N
sent something entirely new In dinosaurs why
should he not have developed? He's hao at ieas.
six million years in which to improve ninseI-
"The Outlines of History" H. q. Weiis new
hook considers these early monsters quite iuty :
He says in one place: ,..
.sThe eariest-known reptiles we're 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 Mesozoic they
soon began to stand up and go stoutiy on al iours
and several great sections OF them Degah 10 oai-
ance themselves on tail and hind legs rather as
the kangaroos do now. Another DIVISION was u'o
crocodile branch and another developed toward
tba tortoise and the turtles. The Plesiosaurs ana
the Ichthyosaurs were two groups which left no
living representatives. Plesiosaurus measured ooV
feet from snout to tail tip-of which half was neck.
"The Mosasaurs were a third group of great por-
poiselike marine lizards But the largest ana
most diversified group of these Mesozoic reptiles
was the group we have spoken Of as kangaroo
like the Dinosaurs, many OF which attained enor-
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 they
stood up and grasped trees with their forelegs
while they devoured the foliage.
"Among the browsers, for example, were the
Dipodoccus carnegii, which measured "a feet In
length and the Atlantosaurus. The Gigantosau-
rms. disinterred by a German expedition In 1912
from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal
II measured well over 100 feet These greater
monsters had legs and they are usually figured as
standing up on them; but 1t Is very doubtful II
they could have supported their weight In this
wav out of water Buoyed up by water or mud
they may have got along
"Another noteworthy type we have figured is the
Triceratops There were also great number Of
Aesh eaters. who preyed upon these herbivores.
or these Tyrannosaurus seems almost the last
word In frightfulness' among living things. Some
cneces of this genus measured 40 feet from snout
20 tail Apparently 1t carried this vast body kan
CARGO fashion, Its tail and hind legs. Probably
q reared itself up. Some authorities even sup
nose that II Ieapt through the air If SO, 1t pos
sessed muscles Of quite miraculous quality.
Much more probably it waded, half submerged, in
nursuit of the herbivorous river saurans"
And along with these terrible beasts were bat
,,te creatures "These bat-lzards were the ptero-
dactyls But birdlike though they were they were
not birds nor the ancestors OF birds. The struc-
ture of their wings was 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 were extngulshed. MS though by
the waving Of a 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 bsfore the coming Of mankind.
1T il probably connected with the close Of
vast period Of equable warm conditions and the
onset OF new, austerer age, IN which the winters