Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 10 | How the Eohippus Became a Horse

How THE EOHIPPUS a i BECAME A HORSE tBT By The Tho Telegrams Telegram's s Special Newt News S Service DENVER Colo Dec 2 2 Said the Little Eohippus Im going to be a horse And on my middle fingernails Ill I'll run my earthly course Th The was horrified the shocked And they chased young Eohippus but buthe buthe buthe he skipped away and mocked Said they You always were as small and mean as now we see And that's conclusive evidence that youre you're always going to be What Be a great tall handsome beast with hoofs to gallop on on Why I You'd have to change your nature nature nature na na- na- na ture said the The little toed three-toed horse did change his its nature and acquire hoofs but up in some of ot the Bad Lands of ot Wyoming he left traces of ot himself as as s he lived four or five million years ago The prehistoric horse or little Eohippus Eohippus Eo Eo- Eo- Eo is not new to science but his skeleton is a rare possession prized by museums The peculiar little animal animal animal ani ani- mal wandered across the plains of Colorado Colorado Colorado Col Col- orado and Wyoming until in the course cours of ot events it met its end at a a. spot on the eastern border of Wyoming Just across the line from Colorado and Nebraska Ne Ne- braska This spot soon will furnish the Colorado Museum of Natural History History HIs- HIs tory ory with rare fossils of ot great value and intense Interest On that spot last month fighting one of ot the worst blizzards in n years museum museum museum mu mu- seum officials located a scientific treasure treasure treasure treas treas- ure house Enthusiastic and little the worse for the storm Director J J. D D. D FiggIns and his associate Philip Rein Rein- heimer leimer returned to Denver with wit he the news of the discovery Thus far they have found An almost complete skeleton of ot a toed three horse which can be entirely entire entire- ly y completed with the bones of other similar horses found nearby Thirty skulls of other three toed three toed horses and prehistoric animals A perfect set of ot teeth of ot the Utano- Utano therium an Immense browsing animal six ix times as large as aa the ot of f today x Several fossils of ot ancient fresh tresh water turtles Parts of the fossil of ot a large prehistoric tonic reptile species yet undetermined and nd numerous parts of ot other animals