Show Science Finds Snake Bird Seven Forty Feet Long Poor Is V Thing Dead ri I 9 r. r V VV t V V. V F g- g V VV V S I I i I By Fredt Frederick ick M. M Kerby By Special News Service NEW YORK Sept 8 The The most terrible monster that ever lived is isher here her In New York Science has Just reconstructed reconstructed him Oh yes hes he's dead The high price of living would be fatal these days lays to a fellow seven forty-seven feet long He died though some three million years ago in in- ina a little range of hills in Montana Little that is is to him They were the Rocky mountains And at the New York museum of natural history you can run your eye over this most awe inspiring of meat eating mammals as he rears his giant giantI I bulk nineteen feet above the floor and seems about to swat the man manas I as you would swat a a- fly Barnum Brown how Brown how app rop rials the first name of this discoverer of I this gigantic reptile reptile the digging of tho bones out of the cretaceous rocks of the and bossed the Job of mounting him on his present lordly pedestal Barnum Brown who is connected with the museums museum's department of fossil reptiles rep rep- tiles is also superintending the reconstruction reconstruction reconstruction re re- re- re construction of this tins reptiles reptile's mate Tyrannosaurus they call this an an- imal From your knowledge of Latin you will recognize the same root as tyrant tyrant and and this was indeed a tyrant over the other beasts that roamed the West when the Gulf stream flowed through Royal gorge For in time Pikes Pike's peak was at the bottom of a lake Old looks like a combination combination tion of lizard crocodile and bird and is in fact distantly related to all these three forms His Ills enormous I hind legs are formed like those of birds with the knees bending forward instead of outward as in crocodiles and lizards He has an immensely long longtail tail like a lizard or crocodile The gigantic head sharp teeth and claws all show that he liked his porter porter- house Larger plant eating dinosaurs have been found in the United States and andin andin andin in Africa in rocks of a still earlier age but this is the largest meat eater over ever found It took two summers of steady work to unearth bones It Is believed the dinosaur became extinct as tho the continent gradually gradually- rose and the tho inland sea disappeared The herb eating dinosaurs tory died for lack of food as the tropical tropical trop trop- ical vegetation changed and old Ty- Ty in turn deprived of the prey on which ho lie lived also starved to death |