| Show vv ice THE GREAT DINOSAURS OR DENVER DRAGONS RECENTLY UNEARTHED I r e 4 s I t 1 I o i I F Fi Fr i r f 1 I i r ii Y I 1 L I 5 horned J 1 i Ji A cogent reason advanced In tn favor of at selecting Denver Denier ns as the meeting me place for lor the American merl tI Association For the Advancement of ot Science the last week of oC this month was avas that the th assembled scientists would be enabled to tb tl e 1 examine the neighboring region which has hall become In a sense classic clastic ground t from rein hawing having yielded several representatives of ot the or giant fossil tos I lizards which once roamed the country roundabout The state stale of Colorado has haa id i long enjoyed the reputation r of ot having been tho the home of ot prehistoric monsters monster d V and specimens of ot these extinct giants are aro constantly being found one of ot the Il latest exhumations being bol an enormous fossil lizard brought to light by b Pro Iro r fessor of ot the tho Field Jold Columbian museum Chicago The lizard was all not less leas than TO 11 feet teet In length and must have weighed when In n the flesh tram from 25 to If 30 tons Perhaps the greatest discovery overy of ot dinosaurs was awes that of Professor Protessor J JP P I fI Hatcher now working In Canyon anyon City Colo Calo who found a complete skale sk l t ton Ion of ot the gigantic lizard In Wyoming attached to the skull of ot which was wo wn a 4 pair p lr of ot Immense horns unlike anything that had ever b been n seen een before It No reptile hind had ewer ever been bett previously discovered with horns and the find cre are oJ a n sensation The body bOd of ot this lids animal was wal probably about SS 36 3 feet teet long lOllS r with a n height Of or ten feet and more than Ihan the bulk of at a modern elephant It net not ii only hind had horns on Its Ita head but 11 ut on the nose forehead and around Its Ita neck au II other distinctive ds feature tea lure being an all enormous projection of ot bone a yard square s q which covered tho the neck tike like a n capo cape or Immense ruff rul The skulls kulls of ot these creD crea II tues tures which are ore between eight and nine fe t feet t long aro are said to 10 b bt be IM largest of ot I any nuY known land hid malt a Sal Unlike most of at the e dinosaurs this the horned species 9 If i 1 walked habitually 0 on n nil all fount rarely taking the kangaroo portion no In which Its 1111 relatives ore are so eo often otten figured It was herbivorous h although a It skeleton sk eton him has been discovered of a n carnivorous dinosaur also allO ur near Canyon Canon City It Is cut esti it mated ranted that these dinosaurs have b been en extinct for tor at l least t a I million y mr uK l TI TIanI and anI though reports have hae recently come from Africa that a living animal supposed to have been extinct a 11 thousand years ears has hall been bt en va and from South America that there In is reason to 10 Inter Infer the lilt existence tx of ot a n living yet et there thero Is la no danger that a 11 specimen of ot the famous Denver dragon t I will ever bo found alive alle t |
