Show r NOT ALL MOB IOL j T O SCIENTISTS THROW L PREHISTORIC ANIM ny Beasts of Burden of TO-d TO heir senta senta- Instances x Are Larger as' as Ancestors We Know as 1 I tives of the Past Wv a among rr The study of the remal t Ii hat hat ID in monsters has brought to It It that other curious things the V 1 uch ucb general the animals of the thep 1 e to- to survive in developed types smaller than their descend 1 the day Even some of the jl the which look night ore Vere drawings ings reconstructing ting sating Ung Plesiosaurus for true tnie much smaller than seve sevet shark species of whale This is avage however of the ancestor of et in inthe inthe Inthe the an an- leviathan that measured 1 1 Ij j and length neither is it true I 5 of the modern kant t wombat whose progenitor t todon was as big as the l la i b but or a small elephant ad enIn enIn enIn en en- In a book Intended for chit chife like like- of a character so instructive instructive- i Ray Pay ay that older al his his- ly to be fascinated by it sh Muse Muse- Lankester ester director of th relation relation- tory departments of the als with um has clearly shown remains ship of some modern m m- mr drawn the peculiar animals w w. w s. s Prof are found In o old ola a strata Extinct some interesting comps compa WiS' WiS by Lankester's book de- de Animals published in t illion or Henry Holt Co is voted to the monsters ores oVes L found so years ago but to a Vi systems tion of some ome of the cr monIn monIn mon mon- In the Mesozoic and Ter Tem earliest All of these thes were not o 0 indeed some someO mammal mammal remains found jays ays prof ly small Lt A lt It Is a aIt aIt It is a big are Lankester to conclude as com com- law of nature that rece ves of theall theall the all small and rue Re Re- pared with their n extinct past That is simply ithe the three- three cent horses are bigger of horses ones and much bigger t g as any toed and toed four-toed ances antes h n bigger Recent elephants are ancestors that have existed and of than the earlier bird or There never has been a ai we know any kind mammal kind mammal re rei existing fish fish in in any geological he great of so big as some of whales whales the sperm Wha re e ehor- ehor and the larger It is true that there reptiles In the pas than any living of the fourteen fourteen feet at the loin ut tut their ing eighty feet from thare re three than snout to the tip of the t to taW t and bodies did not weigh mules that of a big African E 9 enot not yet were small compared wi wf lines of Although evolutionists 1 V of the been able to complete tely ac- ac ancestors of man the an and horse horse is believed to be co cc counted for The big df diri tee ie fl that Skull of a giant ma mar Mic end end- of a mat ma I few lc ho and the swift race ants of a little animal of Of curl curl- million years ago tha that big it the than a fox The rem remous rout ous animal have be i P itC The Eocene It had four lem- lem feet and three on it Its hers bers modern horse it sh ek walks on sing were having practically dl di rue of Many of the extin herbivorous animals 0 some of the great Dinosaurs measured from fifty to eighty feet feut in I length There were others however for instance which was not quite as large but for all that a avery avery avery very ugly and ferocious beast that could successfully attack the giant Brontosaurus and lay him low It Is 19 not definitely known that man existed in ie the days of the great Dinosaurs but he is known t to have been on earth Vf ancestor of the horse not larger than a big dog as a contemporary of the Mammoth This great creature which was a 3 branch of the elephant was not sc se large as is popularly believed numerous remains of skeletons It It Is known that the Mammoth was little larger than an Indian elephant whist is smaller than his African cousin I Philadelphia Ledger |