Show SALAMANDERS OF GREAT SIZE Proof That Species Long Extinct Sometimes Attained a Length of Five Feet 4 In Europe some time ago bone boner were dug up of ot some newts which Ir in life had been about five feet teet long t E Every y bo boy is familiar with newts newt which he calls salamanders commonly commonly com found In brooks and ponds A specimen five Inches long Is a big one But five feet feet they they must have hive been been monsters Of course these giant newts w were re o of f long-extinct long species It would have bare been Interesting to live In la those days when so many ninny queer monsters mostly of ot aquatic habits swarmed the earth They seem to have been among among D na natures nature's tures ture's earliest experiments abandoned later Inter There were no mammals then j and aDd the supposition Is that all aU mammals mammal of today Including man were originally origin ally der derived dered ed from a reptilian ancestry We cannot say say- for certain that this queer reptile which lived about years jears ago was not actually an no to of ot our own and has hai It was dug up In Texas been heen named About eight feet teet long the most curious thing thin about It was the enormous fin It carried on n nIts Its back the back the ribs of ot the fin being from the ve ver e series of bones extending Of what use was this fin It was merely ornamental Or It be that it was a means of ot defense |