Show SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 1931 mi Very Interesting Fossil and Photo Record ' of the Oldest Feud on Earth Which the Ponderous Dinosaur Started and pi tx : ti V ? Is Desperately rSv K Trying to t yrfi The Rare Dinosaur Footprints Now in the Collection of the Carnegie Institution Washington It is Believed That Were Found Impressed in a Sandstone Slab in Hermit Gorge Grand Canyon a Family Battle Was in Progress at the Time When They Were Made V " I W fV- ’JV'w" - - i- J f 1 C4 This Photograph of a Group In the Museum of Natural History New York Showing a Dinosaur in a Deadly Combat W'lth His Ancient First Cousin Gigantic Duck-Bille- d the Aggressive Cogosaurus These Prehistoric Monsters Have Been Identified by Scientists as Belonging to the Same Family as the Modern Iguanas Remarkable Photo Taken a Few Weeks Ago in Australia Shows Two Iguanas in a Deadly Duel - vty r this page today is a remarkable in the lizard family a million or more years ago What it is all about and photograph of two poisonous lizIt why it ever began nobody knows ards identified as iguanas enis simply a war of extermination begaged In a battle which did not cease tween branches of the lizard group until one of the combatants was quite and there are evidences that it has dead Ihe photograph was taken a few been going on since the days when the weeks ago in Australia where rival original lizards weighing ten tons or members of the lizard family have been more and measuring twenty feet from conducting a bitter war of exterminatip to tail stalked this earth looking tion from as long back as the oldest for trouble” inhabitants of the bush can remember “It is only a phase of a never-endin- g and then some Two iguanas meet by contest” observed one of the assistant — chance for the very first time and curators at the museum “a family row bingl the battle is on Their manner that will go on until the end of time of fighting is almost Identical with that’ and never be settled” of their prehistoric ancestors who m their The geologists roamed this earth a million or more tracing of time by the formayears ago tion of the rocks and the While the Australian photographer stratas of earth land the close-up was maneuvering to get a good learned men who have peneof the battling iguanas the two liztrated the wilds with expediards totally oblivious of nis presence tions from the Museum of lunged and clawed tearing at each Natural History in New other’s throat with venomoils rage The York and other similar orhave found struggle continued until one of the ganizations combatants sank teeth and claws into abundant evidence to prove reits opponent’s throat and held on to a considerable extent that the early animal giants gardless of a terrific raking it got amidships from the hind claws of the other brought about their own exanimaL The throat hold won Choktinction Like the Australian lizards they fought to the ing tom and mangled one iguana death From the time when weakened and sank and in a few moments wa3 dead while the victor they first emerged as distinct crawled painfully away presumably to species there was a conlook for another battle as soon as it tinuous struggle for supremacy — males against got back into fighting shape males to be masters of the “That battle between two iguanas” herd said Dr Albert E Smithson of the females against females for the attention Sydney Museum when the photographs which even among animals is were submitted to him “is merely the a recognized characteristic continuation of a' quarrel that began ' 1? —id t - - - - -- early cousins of the modem lizards which ranged all over the world In the jurrasic period? These animals were as powerful as they were giants in stature They had hind legs which were so strong that they could stand erect and run and leap They were muscular fight- ’ 1 iN 1— ' - - at the Entrance to Gypsum Cave Nevada Where Footprints of Prehistoric Lizards Were Found Left to Right Are i M R Harrington Curator of the Southwest Museum Director of the Dr James Scherer Museum t Dr Chester Stock California Institute of Technology and Research e Association Carnegie Institute and E L Furlong of the California Institute of Technology ( Scientists Fossilized ers But their heads were Bmall and their brain capacity was almost nil In the Gypsum cave of Nevada proof has been found of what became of two of the largest of their kind They had died in battle Distinguished investigators from the Carnegie Institution in Washington D C and the California Institute of Technology recently came upon the evidence Footprint in fossil formation apparently of dinosaurs in such position as to indicate that they had been made at the end of a death combat were found just inside the opening of the The great beasts had cave met in this retreat to have it out The footprint evidence indicated that it was a drawn battle and death along was tho victor Mammoths of a later period staged a similar combat for herd supremacy in a gully back of Newburgh New York The mammoth was about the last of the prehistoric creatures to It was not pass out of the picture unlike the elephant in general appearance although it possessed great tusks which even in their curved position were much taller than the averag man Heavy growth of rough wool covered the body The remains of two of these fighting bulls were dug out of a trench which a market gardener had cut through his property to drain it The position in which the bones were found showed that the two animals were face to face when each had given the other the final goring They died side by side In the Hermit Gorge of the inspiring Grand Canyon an expedition headed by Dr David White of the Carnegie Institution found other rare records which Mother Nature has left for the guidance of modern scientists He uncovered footprints of a race of amphibians which nad ceased to exist many thousands of years before AH of these footprints were distinctly impressed on labs which in the passing ox time and through geological change had been formed into stone from the original Here there were signs which sand might easily suggest that a battle royal had taken place with members of the group in combkt dying one after another and the last survivor holding out only a brief time before he joined the rest i Coming down to a period only a few years before the struggle between the Iguanas in Australia another clear and definite instance of the among animals was recA party of hunters set out In orded early Spring to try their luck with big game in the Adirondack forest of upThe guide led them per New York through passes Into the remote snow covered hills In a clearing at the edge of a virgin wood they came across the whitened skeletons of two gigantic tags their great antlers Interlocked of-th- In these struggles which were staged in Svery part oi the earth there was never a compromise no retiring from the field no acceptance of defeat The victor Depth alone ended them if one there was went his way probably to another fight the vanquished became in time only a bony relic to be covered by the drift and there to lie for centuries and until a present-da- y explorer dug him out and gave him a place among the rare exhibit! of a This Masalve Skeleton of a Prehistoric Dinoasur It In the Berlin Museum Specimens Muteum I mploye Worked lnid During a It went Renovation of Men la Shown Looking Out lie Appear Puny die One of and Ribs Giant the Compared With the Dinosaur 3 itkm museum What wildly spectacular fights they must have been! What rare moving pictures could have been made had modem men of the camera only been present and followed the lunges and clashes and clawings and biting round by round and recorded them on the film Fortunately the record of these Preconflicts were not wholly lost served on stone and In the deep stratas of clay one may still trace footprints facing footprint and bones and Links of fighting animals in the position where in life they met to decide the fate of one or both What of the gigantic dinosaurs ruial I faster 'll hh F If Man Hsd llnrn Alive in Prehistoric Times and Had Met a lizard or Other Rrpnla of the Giant Spesiet In Hit Walks He odd Appear a Shown In the Picture by Comparison Barries 1111 These animal had gone out Into the clearing to settle the questim of the mastery of the forest just as the dinosaurs and other great animals had done untold centuries before While much encouraging progress has been made by scientific men in discovering important relirs of extinct species the earth still remains a veritable storehouse of unseen ’wonders No fewer than a score of expedition may be afield within a year in a aider search for prehistoric animals and for evidence to verify the belief that where natural causes did not tike them off never-endin- g combats succeeded |