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MW sk f T4 W: 3 x ‘ 'l'! - C'- : cross ' the earth suj I osedly Wiping out ail iving matter in its pati "tfgct 7a m it also survived subsequent disturbances arid geologic changes includ-I ing the Flood And because the same species nourishes even fo this day Iscience has turned its attention to Grylly hopifig that the Insect may present soitie tangible of its Iremarkable explanation hardiness As a flatter of sdeiitific record there are about 25000® species of insects iri the world How the entomologists discovered that many and sifted theraall out in favor of Grylly -- are details ir volved tqrdlspuss here The important point is that the Grylloblatta Campodaiformis jis the only living species f any kind —animal or insect — which compares exactly with fossil remains found ini stratified rock! and dating back tp the (or Pleistocene) era 4 For instance anthropologists roiw and' then startle the world by finding the bones of a monster prehistoric pachyderm or Dinosaur or a “Pithecanthropus ijor the rep- - & tile-lik- e Plesiosaurs ? They even have assembled ! bonis to form skeleton of the mammoth animals A ‘ that roamed the earth! before the A Ice AgeJ Yet they hajv-- failed to ’A find anything more thin fossils — except id the case of GblLy Even f before scientists discov- ered several specimens of fossil-we- d Grylloblatta Carrfpodeiformis en- - kf: i i pre-GSlac- wlI wAl tte 'SSStttitotSfflgg Mr Comstock in h s “Introduction UM!‘ to Entohiology” says primitive and ttbnorrm fomTfUect life thati adapted itseli to the Ice Age when the whole work was buried un- der glatiera' It thr e in aub-zer- o weatherJ This i Further substan- tiated bytestimony Richard Lyde cker who points out that the insect caxj be found today ficurishipg in Alpine - be entir'cirr'comfortahir on ! ss 'r rr ry - Id C'L t-- ” AMm' Jb Hi!'-- r weird r A v:': - i i - s- ' T 7 dinosaur! the pithecanthropus the dinotherlum— all j) the strange and gigantic creatures of limes— perished In the Ice Age while only an insect survived!” “Gianl I 4 ! elephnt-lik- e pre-histori- 'r " the Ml r I f -- Lri ' m hlorth America and in the vVest Indies It looks like a cross between a encket and a grasshop per and indeed is some- hat distantly related to the cricket ‘Insects are an ex- m vo a? 1 I” Silurian age The exact nature and finities of some of these primeval SciorilydetmrsJll1 Sfere question 1 afre- - b'no that species of this' group £rca periSdfb" tblTondu! from theUtrat? distinct STP fossil insects order: iKIUUpS °f thiMrank Tan h?rdlf h? regarded as ’ fl”2 T ? in the opinion of some authors are nearly related to the cockroaches d r a g o h flies grasshoppers etc ' “ln the Secondary or-whic- in-th- 'v - V if i j fj t ( £ i’i ?J?Ucl?U - entomologists fossil ‘ - 1 pSe“e&? S?!:t' ‘ geological changes have had a more profound importance than those of the - - Glacial period The old subsoil the product of ages of ordinary weathering was removed from vast areas to be deposited and concentrated in others Old were filled—often to a great valleys depth 300 to 400sfeetrrivers were diverted from their old courses never to return lakes of vast size were caused by the damming of old outlets And inj the midst of this up-heaval the giant dinosaur! andgreat all other mighty animals of the earth stampeded southward in fear only to find themselves trapped every way they turned by' the mighty glaciers Only the insect— little Grylloblatta Campodeiformis — survived The insect simply made itself at home in the ice and centuries later when the ice melted Grylly stepped out and prej pared itself for another era Even the Flood didn’t harm iU Ac -- : rocks in stnajl’ chanceaTtte creatures Id stratified deposits are fairly abundant And none of the spe- Ulat been discovered in Ter o existing ?' When Mr Lydekker wrote the above r little was known about s ' j ' I ‘ - ( e‘ ’ I : vi tfh'Jj f d V 3prt two-thir- ds flew through the air of animals of greater size than elephants One of the X) t ' j r - MJA’ x ‘ -- i a M'dl v - North America Before thajt time strange and gianimals stalked gantic through the world' Only-few years' ago Sir! Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a ibook which pictured this strange scene He told of the fantastic vegetation birds sometimes 'with necks as long aa giraffes which r: " d “'i - majrked lowering of temperatures particularly in Northern Europe and j d'-d- ial e i: i vX to a 7 A '1 1 v of' that age scientists believe was the Pithecanthropus Remains or thia animal were found in the Pliocene of Java by Dubois in 189 J When iiv- ing it apparently resembled the human type mofe closely than any of the antlwopoid apes The parts found were an Incomplete calvanum two molar teeth and the femur The remains of the skull indicated a probable brain capacity pf U00 cubic centimeters! or the average of the human skull The animal it is thought walked e erect Then there was the Plesiosaurus a iossu long - necked marine reptile specimens of which have- been found in Asia Another was theDinotherium an elephant-lik- e animal' only many times larger than the famous Jumbo Another important " animal of the period was the Dinosaur remains e have been found United States A complete skeleton of one is now in the Yale University Museum and another in the Museum of Natural Some of the History in New York dinosaurs looked like huge lizards or alligatorsj others like kangaroos j Many were thitty feet in length t? j f But in spite of their immense size all these animals were wiped out when the great sheets of ice swept over the world roin the north" Viewed in relation to man’s position on the earth no - 7 J rcr" t “rbaTd1 dis?"2rj“ 1 i-- ’i J f : ' — ““ —' - j j wasjenown among certain L But the fact that its t in rock i fLfl In-- I Witb ' the ?ects and their comparison with the liv-- I science lately has beTn V inAGryl add a few dramatic touches 'to to - Wfea: ' ‘ V MfU have a way “ 4 |