Show THE DINOSAURS professor earl douglas has ered bones of prehistoric animal lei in bonanza country carl douglas who has been or in dihe bonanza country for several months in the interest of the carnegie at pittsburg has made some wonderful discoveries of fossils fossil of prehistoric animals and reptiles and when he makes his report there chete will le be much interest manifested in the geological circles of thie world the bones that he has found of animals and reptiles they lived ands of sears eaas ago and of those ahalt live now in other parts of the world would certainly lead one to believe that this was vias at one time a tropical country the skulls of monkeys are nume numerous Tous and strongly indicate that that little animal once inhabited this country one of the most Impart important amt discoveries was nas that of the bones of the dinosaurs a prehistoric reptile or animal which must liae hae been a great curio curiosity Gity in his day lo 10 conte in his geological tells us that tho dinosaurs was mas the anoe highly organized in structure us as it was vms gainly the hugest in size which ever eier exi feted though a nery ery decided rep tile it combined certain characters which allied it with the mammal and especially bilah the bird tho the very nery long and hollow limb bones bonee the strong massive maishe hipbone and sac sacrum ruin ellid it with both animal and bird while the massie mass heness mess of the hind 4 1 lega as comp compared axed with nith the f torea and aji d the possession of only ehret fum on the hind foot alllen aall c it more strongly with ith the bird le conte says it seems certain that the dinosaurs walked with like ike the quadruped instead 0 oi crawling like a reptile and that some if 1 not all of them had the power of and walking on their hind logy logs alone like birds in the oldest eocene beds green river basin eighty seven soven species ot of vertebrates two thirds of which were mammals inam mals have been found by cope in the port fort Brid bridgi geor bed of the green river basin middle eocene one line hundred and fifty species of vertebrates haie hae been found by marsh the larger number were monkeys non keys the creadon cre tire odon which aich lived in the white river basin bashi in prehistoric urn tim es Is another very remarkable animal it was intermediate between the hog the deer and the camel and at this time inhabited the whole continent horn nebraska to oregon the evolution of the horse inmost Is most interesting in the lowesa part of the eocene basin of tho the green aher Is found the earliest known animal referable to the horse this animal had three toes on the hind foot and four perfect serviceable tos toes on the forefoot fore tore foot in addition on the fore fow was an imperfect toe ot or traces of 0 that splint can be seen on the forefoot of a horse today to day the animal of that time was no bigger than a fox tracing the horse up to the present mine the growth and aind evolution is very noticeable the next age produced the horse the size of a sheep and the next the size of aa ass aas the pliocene was almost a perfect horse it differs from the trus true horse in the shape of the skull the hoof and the less length of the molars changes have been going on during the years and today to day we have the modern horse and he is still improving what will he be in a thousand years f from rom now many people believe even now that the horse of today to day has a mind and can think and reason all of this northwest country Is with prehistoric in wyoming Alon montana tana and other the fossil hunters huni fers have been busy for yeats years and have made some wonderful discoveries and have added useful specimens to the museums of the country only a little while ago T W odonnell had on exhibition at the court house a fossilized heart of some soine animal found in the blue mountain country it is now on exhibition hibi tion in denver dener just the other day the nevi news came to vernal that bainum dron brown of new york found the remains of a in prehistoric animal in Alon montana tana which was forty feet long and twenty two feet high the remains were vere shipped to bo new york the bulk weighed pounds and required sixteen teams to haul it to the railroad the fossil is classified as a tyrannosaurus or the king of the lizards was this basin at one time in the history ot of the world orld submerged by a great body of water many geological scholars mink it was george duhey of the pittsburg salt lake lak oll oil company aana the baku oil company is of the opinion that the immense deposits of COMO come from the oil of extinct fishes |