Animals Before JIc 



These anomalous reptiles, to borrow a 

 phrase from Mr. Hutchinson, have so far been 

 found most abundantly in South Africa, where 

 the Karoo Beds have yielded many species 

 and a large number of individuals. In North 

 America, Texas, Illinois, and Arizona, particu- 

 larly the iii^t-named State, have furnished a 

 number of species ; and quite recently the 

 genus Fariasaurus, hitherto known only from 

 Africa, has been found in Kussia. Most of the 

 species so far discovered are of very massive 

 build, with shoii: and powerful legs and large 

 heads, the entire aspect of the skeleton — for 

 skeletons have their own individuality — being 

 suggestive of stupidity and binite ferocity. 

 Stupid these animals certainly were, if size 

 of brain is any index of amount of intelli- 

 gence, for the brains of all these early animals 

 were diminutive, and it was a long time before 

 any animal came into the world with a brain 

 that would compare either in quantity or 

 quality with the brains of very ordinary ani- 

 mals of to-day. 



The question may veiy naturally be asked, 

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