Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-11 | Page 4 | Not All Dinosaurs Were Gore-Guzzling Dragons

Not All Dinosaurs Were Guzzling Gore-Guzzling Dragons Dinosaurs were not all as high as houses and as long as freight trains trams neither r were they nil All guzzling gore dragons Some of or them were no bigger big ger than ordinary chickens and the biggest of ot them were vege tege And no human being not even even the most ancient cave man ever saw a living dinosaur let alone kept a tame one for tor a pet pel These of illusions fostered fostered fostered fos fos- fos- fos by comic supplement humorists humorists humor humor- were among the features of an address Concerning Dragons presented presented presented pre pre- in Washington under the auspices auspices aus aus- of Science Service The speaker speak speak- er was Charles W. W Gilmore curator of vertebrate pale paleontology of f the U.S. U.S. U U. S. S national museum The little like bird e dinosaurs ran on two legs like birds Mr said and they had bones so closely resembling those of birds that only an expert can distinguish their fossils as dinosaurian And some of the really real real- lr ly big dinosaurs had ridiculously birdlike bird bird- like features in irs wide flat flar like duck-like bills and high crests like roosters The like duck bills were probably used for exactly the same kind of mud grubbing th that lt modern ducks Indulge Indulge indulge In in- In only on a much grander scale The biggest dinosaurs whose fossilized fossilized fossil fossil- bones have been discovered were the largest land animals that ever lived they reached an nn extreme length of a hundred feet feel A specimen recently recently recently re re- re- re placed on exhibition in the U.S. U.S. U U. S. S national museum is a seventy foot er cr But much of this vast length was neck and taU tall An eJ foot eighty diplodocus diplodocus diplodocus diplo- diplo Mr Gilmore said would have 48 feet of tail tall 20 of neck and only 12 of body length These creatures were vegetarians and with their relatively tiny heads heads no no bigger than horses horses' heads they heads they must have had to eat continuously during all their waking hours to get enough fuel for their huge bodies Yet these ancient monsters were not the largest animals that ever lived though they do hold the record for land dwellers The biggest animals that ever lived on earth are living to to- day the day the whales Though not so long longas as some of the dinosaurs they are more solidly built and therefore considerably considerably considerably con con- heavier than any dinosaur probably ever was And being warm warm- blooded flesh flesh eating eating animals they are without doubt more e efficient animals animals ani ani- mals than the great reat dinosaurs were