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Show SKELETON OF MONSTER-OP THREE MILLION YEARS AGO NEW YORK. Nov. 30. Tho American museum of natural history here announces that it has Just come Into possession of a practically perfect skeleton of a tracha-don. tracha-don. a monster which lived on the earth not less Jihan 3.000.000 years azo. It was fotmd In the Hci! Creek region of the Bnd Lands of Montana, where for eight years the museum has been carrying on extensive explorations. Tho expeditions expedi-tions have been led by Barnum Brown, who probably has more Important finds to bis credit than any other American scientist, scien-tist, and have resulted In some of the most valuable discoveries and accessions of Prehistoric animals on record. The museum's announcement of this latest find says: "Plant remains. lea.ves. fruits and wood found with the fossilized bones show that the climate of the United States as far north as the Canada country was from temperate to sub-tropical at the close of the Cretaceous poriod. It is concluded thai Montana was sub-tropical. Tho tracha-dons tracha-dons were aquatic dinosaurs and neut most of their time in fresh water lagoons, which were then numerous over the lowlands low-lands of the interior. Tiiolr remains havo been found In sea deposits that were formed near shore. "These animals combined some ana-jii ana-jii ' na"-tcrs of both lizards and crocodiles, croco-diles, but have no living relatives or descendants. de-scendants. They were kangaroo shape with long slim leps and reduced forelegs, and a long, powerful swimming tall. Tho !)f.VllMar exPandci bill resembles a duck bill ana was covered with a thorny, denticulate denti-culate In form, which was probably used In gathering vegetable food." |