The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-07-30

The prontoaaur,ia. according 20 the rcstorn'
ton herewith reproduced. doesn't look espeeauS
formidable. except for his size.
To- dinosaur that seems best able TO pay nus
way and keep on going II the Allsnurus He's got
teeth and claws and looks as II he might "'''
rapidly. -
However the fnct that the African dinoaaur
does not seem 20 be cxnctly like any OF hA pre-
historic relatives proves nothing. II may DC tla,
the fellow Captain Stevens is after mas s'o'u.eu
like the rest OF the world ana is prepared 70 Pre
sent something entirely new In dinosaurs why
should he not have doyelopedi He's had ut least
ak million years In which 20 Improve himself
sgrhe outlines OF History" II. q. Wells new
book considers these early monsters quite tuly'
lilo says In one place:
''rhe earliestknown reptiles were beasts win
great bellies and not very powerful legs very ike
their kindred Rmphiba, wallowing as the croco-
die Willows 20 this day; but IN the MesoEoie they
soon began 10 stand up and 20 stouty on all Tours
and several great sections OF them began 10 bal-
ance themselves on tail and hind legs, rather as
the kangaroos do now. Another division was the
crocodile branch and another developed toward
the tortoise aud the turtles. The Plesosaurs and
the Ichthyosaurs were two groups which left no
living representatives Plesiosaurus measured SoO
feet from snout 20 tail tp-of which half was neck
'"rhe Mosasaurs were a third group Of great por-
poiseilke marine lizards. But the largest and
most diversified group OF these Mesozoic reptiles
like. the Dinosaurs, many OF which attained enor-
nous proportions. In bigness these greater Dino
snurs have never been exceeded although the sea
can stlll show IN the whales creatures as great
Some OF these and the largest among them, were
herblvorous animals; they browsed on rushy yege
tntlon and among the ferns and bushes, or they
stood up and grasped trees with their forelegs
while they deyoured the foliage.
"Among the brOwsers. for example, were the
DlplodOccus carnegii. which measured "a feet IN
length and the Atantosaurus. The Gigantosau.
rus dlsinterred by German expedition In 1912
from rocks In East Africa was still more colossal
II measured well over 100 feetl These greater
monsters had legs. and they are usually figured as
standing up on them; but Il Is very doubtful II
they could have supported their weight IN this
way out OF water. Buoyed up by water or mud
they may have got along.
"Another noteworthy type we have figured is the
Trlceratops. There were also a great number OF
flesh eaters. who preyed upon these herblyOres
OF these TyTannOsaurus seems almost the last
word In 'frightfulness among living things. Some
species OF this genus measured 40 feet from snout
10 tail Apparently II carried this vast body kan
CARGO fashion on its tail and hind legs. Probably
IL reared itself up. Some authorities even sup
pose that II leapt through the air II 80, Il pos.
sessed muscles OF quite miraculous quality
Much more probably II waded half submerged, in
pursuit OF the herbiyorous river saurians."
And along with these terrible beasts were bat.
like creatures. 'Srhese batzards were the pterO-
dactyls But birdke 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 a web; the wing OF a bird is like
an arm with feathers projecting from IT'S hind
edge Aud these pterodactyis had no feathers"
An OF these creatures have disappeared from
the face OF the Garth, Wells says. They ended
abruptly. They were extingushed, as 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 before the coming OF mankind
1T is probably connected with the close OF a
vast period Of equable warm conditions and the
onset OF a new ausierer age, In which the winters
were bitterer and the summers brief, but hot"