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Show Museum Planned At Dinosaur Field The skeleton of an ancient animal that stood sixteen or1 seventeen feet nigh and was some ninety feet in length, is nearly all cairved away from the original bedrock in which it was found. Dr. Earl Douglas is in charge of the task in the University Univer-sity of Utah dinosauer laboratory. The bones were, found at the Dinosauer Dino-sauer National Monument near Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah, and were brought to the University two years ago. Plane nrp now under Wav to make the dinosaur grounds a national park through which many tourists will be brought to Utah to view the bones of many more mammoth animals ani-mals which now lie embedded in the rocks of that region. If this is done, plans will be carried out to build a large museum right oni the grounds of the dinosaur monument. The collection col-lection at the University is the largest larg-est university collection of dinosaurs in the world. The hind limb of one of the animals ani-mals which is being worked on weighs betweeni eleven and twelve hundtred pounds and is nearly twelve feet in length. The carniverous or flesh-eatmg dinosaur, the Dones oi which are being prepared for mounting, mount-ing, used to walk on its hind feet and stood about sixteen feet high. The University specimen is the best and most complete skeleton of a carniverous car-niverous dinosaur of its geological age that has ever been discovered, according to Dr. Douglas. It will be ready to mount in a few months. Its large head and mouth with pointed teeth show that the animal used to live from the flesh of other gigantic animals which it used to attack. . , |