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Show SOME BIG GAME OF THREE MILLION YEARS AGO Speaking of the brontosnurus, If any ono ever did, ono might pnraphrnso Gclett Uurgess: "I never saw a dinosaur, I never hope to seo one." Tot, nccordlng to reports from African Af-rican explorers a Hvo dinosaur, a brontosnurus has been found In Africa. Now thnt the dinosaur Is with us, potentially, big game enthusiasts1 will bo Interested In this description of prehistoric pre-historic big game, quoted from n (pin-munlcatlon (pin-munlcatlon to tho Natlonni Geographic society by Barnum Brown: "Today wo must go to Africa for tho biggest game; but there was a time In tho dim distant past when America produced animals larger than any now living. That was so long ago that nothing remains of these creatures except ex-cept their bones, and they are turned to stone. "The animals aro dinosaurs; for tho moment we will call them lizards not tho creeping, crawling kind, hut huge reptiles that stnlkcd upright through tho Jungles, rivaling In slzo tho elephant, the hippopotamus nnd tho rhinoceros. "The place Is Alberta, Canada, and tho tlmo of their existence 3,000,000 years ago. "In these marshes of prehistoric times dwelt a host of reptiles, soma large, somo small and of various forms; ties!) eaters and herb eaters, but all' sharing certnln characters In common and known ns dinosaurs. Not any Were closely related to any living reptile, rep-tile, yet they had somo characters common to the lizards, crocodiles and t. "Of tho kinds characteristic of tho period ono species, a herb eater named Traehodon, wus more than 80 feet long and about Ifi feet high when standing erect. Its head, with broadly-cxpand. ed mouth, resembles that of a duck, liut back of tho beak there aro more than 2,000 small teeth, disposed In ninny vertical rows each containing several Individual teeth, tho new ones coming up from below as the old ones wore out "Tho long hind legs terminated In three largo-hoofed toes, and the shorter, short-er, slender front feet were pnrtly webbed. A long, thin, slender tnll net-ed net-ed as a powerful swimming organ, nnd the body wus covered with rough tu-berculnto tu-berculnto skin. Hnvlng no means of defense, It lived chiefly In the water, where it was free from attacks of tho flesh eaters." |