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Show University Has Best Collection With the discovery of the skull of the great mammal Eror.tosaurus, the University of Utah now has a greater collection of dinosaur skeletons than any other University in the world, and the collection surpassed only by two or three of the great museums. In the possession of the skull of Brontosaurus, the University stands alone. The Bontosaurus is the largest animal ani-mal that the world has ever known. When alive it weighed twenty tons, was 100 feet long, and stood twenty feet high. It resembled in the main a giant lizard propped up on long legs. There have been only two or three of the skulls of Brontosaurus found in the entire world. In every case the skull has been found separate from the body, due to the fact that the head is so easily disarticulated from the neck. j In the University's work of excavating exca-vating one of these mammoth cr-:a-! tures, at the dinosaur quarry at Jeii-Len, Jeii-Len, Utah, Dr. Earl Dougl '.k, who has direct charge of the exc.itv atin,f, discovded attached to the skjition of the Brontosaurus, a skull, the only on-ly one known to science. From bulletins of the Department of the Interior comes the news that in no other part of the wold has there been found such a deposit of dinosaurian and other prehistoric reptilian skeletons as have been taken tak-en from land embraced in the Dinosaur Dino-saur National Monument in northeastern north-eastern Utah. |