Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-24 | Page 11 | Scientists Claim Utah's Fossil Bones Solve Enigma of Link to Dragon Age

Scientists Scientists' Claim Ut Utah's Fossil BOll Bones S I Solve Enigma of Link to fo Dragon Age Discovery of a dragon horizon among bones in Utah solvin solving the mystery of a lost million million mil ml- lion years cars In the earths earth's history was announced by the Smithsonian Institution Thursday in Washington Washing Washing- ton D. D C. C As reported by the United Press Smithsonian paleontologists believe newly discovered bone bone fragments ts tobe to tobe tobe be a missing link between early and present life on earth Although the University of Utah geology department has received no word of the discovery Ray E. E Marsell Marsell Marsen Mar- Mar sell sen assistant professor of geology said the announcement may refer to a recently discovered dinosaur area in the Wasa Wasach ch plateau Interpretation Given Ghen According to the Smithsonian interpretation in- in interpretation interpretation in in- a violent upheaval of the earths earth's surface one which h hd formed the the- Rocky mountains buried burie d the early creatures underneath millions millions millions mil mil- lions of tons of rock more than 60 years ago It blotted ou out t records of the Dawn Age of his his- tory The discovery included mammals mammal s hitherto unknown to have existed o on onearth onearth n earth and utterly unlike anything g now living One was believed to b ba be bea ge ge e a connecting link between th the e hoofed and clawed mammals although although although al al- though not directly ancestral t to either Dr C. C Lewis Gazin of Smithsonian Smithsonian Smithsonian Smith Smith- who directed the excavation work reported the teeth and bone bon fragments were of warm blooded creatures which preceded the present present present pres pres- ent mammals on earth and ma may Y have been directly ancestral o of f many of them Records Explained The records included fragmentary fragmentary frag frog remains of insectivores a arace arace race best represented at present b by shrews who are believed to hav have remained closest to the original stock from which all aU mammals origInated originated mated Smithsonian said Some of these mammals were a an awkward stupid lot Their brains brain were small compared with those o of f even the dumbest mammals of today to to- day hardly day hardly an improvement over the brains of the cold-blooded cold creatures creatures crea crea- tures tares that had gone before them The rocks in which the bones were ere found were laid down between and years ago SmIthsonian said Then as if in a areal great real explosion of ot new life the modern types of birds mammals fishes and flowering plants first appeared The Dawn Age of new life which followed was described by Smithsonian as the great April of time The new mammals destroyed the old and only the upheaval of the earths earth's surface preserved their re remains remains remains re- re mains for scientists to discover many millions of ot years later