Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-11 | Page 4 | Queer Quirks of Nature

QUEER u f THEY TIrEY ALWAYS Y DiED THED or OF OLD nr nT ARTHUR y X PACK P President American merlean Nature Asso Association Age Ages ago aeo when plaIn or of western Alberta was a 8 huge swampy delta on the border ot or a shallow Inland sea Ilea filled with weedy marshes and sluggish mud mud- muddy muddy dy 01 rivers rivera there roamed there thou thou- thousands thousands sands sanda of or strange reptiles Some were huge thirty huge thirty or more feet reet In length others were small malland and delicate and furnished food for tho the stronger ones The carni carnivorous verous vorous reptiles hunted relentlessly and the lives of or the tho weaker ones were spent In dodgIng ImmInent death But there was wan as one 1 big 11 reptile who went Ills his way undisturbed by rear fear of or death or the desire to kNI k This was wa the Ditto Dino- ear as 88 a he be Is 1 r t tri 1st DX DR Jn called by scientists scientist and greatly reo re- resembled I a big plated armor war chariot charlot Ho was shaped somewhat like an Immense horned oat broad and flat flat with a long taU tall short heavy I legs and a IL small thick head lilt lIS I covering was a thick leathery skin set with thousands of or bony armor plates Beginning at the neck and continued along along- each side to the end of his tall tail was as a arow a arow arow row of heavy sharp spines some more than a foot In length His HI head was protected by plates and even his eyes and nostrils were heavily sheathed I Even the Tyrant Dinosaur the largest that has ever lived was powerless to harm the for when ho drew his legs under him and squalled squatted flU flat flaton flaton on the ground he was Invulnerable All Ail ot or his Ills exposed surfaces were heavily lIy protected by bones and spines and he was too heavy to lift and too broad and flat to be overturned beI I So this big biff u useless appearing tel tel- tellow fel fellow of ot the tho low seems to have been one few animals of his time who lived In lazy peace When hungry he chewed up and leaves and when any possible danger was near he mere mere- merely merely merely ly sat down 00