EXTINCT ANIMALS 



somewhat less size but with the same kangaroo- 

 like carriage, which was a beast of prey. It is 

 the Megalosaurus, and had many tiger-like 

 teeth in its jaws. It hunted down and fed upon 

 the herbivorous Dinosaurs as lions and tigers 

 hunt and eat antelopes and buffalo to-day. 

 By no means all the Dinosaurs walked on their 

 hind legs. There were enormous kinds which 

 went on all fours. Here is the skeleton of the 

 Brontosaurus (Fig. 147) and a sketch of its 

 appearance in life (Fig. 148). The great Ceteo- 

 saurus, of which the limb bones and most of the 

 skeleton were found near Oxford, is similar to 

 this, and Mr. Andrew Carnegie has presented to 

 the Natural History Museum a complete re- 

 construction of the skeleton of a closely allied 

 Dinosaur — the Diplodocus — which was exca- 

 vated in Wyoming and is now in the Carnegie 

 Institute at Pittsburg. It is eight}^ feet long. 

 Its head is very small, and a great part of the 

 length is made up by the very long neck and the 

 very long tail, but the body is bigger than that 

 of the biggest elephant and the back was nearly 

 fourteen feet from the ground. 



The immense profusion in which the bones 

 of these huge creatures have been found in 



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