Show Utah Uta Fossil Tract Last Pasture o of the Huge luge u e auro pot s These Reptiles Famous for Having Two Brains Washington The The bones of or a gigantic dinosaur that made the world picture of years ago a nightmare nightmare nightmare night night- mare have been found in a western Utah fossil tract that may have been the last pasture where the last of the fabulous fabulous- appearing reptiles awaited waited their final end the Smithsonian Institution Institution Institution In In- announced ced Another chapter has thus been written in the curious history of the ton forty-ton monsters and their smaller small small- er racial brothers that peopled the world hundreds of millions of years ago and then utterly disappeared The bones found by Dr Charles CharlesW W W. Gilmore the Institutions Institution's paleontologist paleontologist paleontologist are only years years' old as against the year age of most of the dinosaur re remains remains remains re- re mains giving rise to the belief that the western Utah tract where they were found may have been the spot where the monsters met extinction I Insufficient materials to reconstruct reconstruct reconstruct recon recon- I I the known from I Iother 1 other specimens to have ranged between between be be- tween 75 and feet in length and 40 to 50 tons in weight were found But enough evidence was uncovered by Doctor Gilmore to add significantly significantly significantly cantly to previous knowledge regarding regarding regarding re re- garding these creatures Last Up Round-Up of Reptiles True mammals were already beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning to appear in North America erica at the time that the last of these massive creatures were making a alast alast alast last stand against probable climatic changes that cut of off their food sup sup- ply The last up round-up with drouth and chill over the tropical semi-tropical forest forest for for- est which at that time covered North America as the herders may have taken place in Utah in the neighborhood of the fossil finds Scientists have been unable to to proceed proceed pro pro- coed further than such speculation in accounting for the disappearance in a very short time of the giant reptiles reptiles reptiles rep rep- tiles of the Cretaceous era The are famous not only only only on on- ly as the largest land creatures but because they had a small smaIl brain in inthe inthe inthe the head and a second brain in inthe inthe inthe the hindquarters for controlling the movements of the hind legs and tail tai in much the same fashion as a ladder hook fire truck Finding the bones in the year old beds was called more remarkable than finding a living mastodon or toothed saber-toothed ti tiger tiger tiger ti- ti ger by the Smithsonian institution |