feet at the shoulders. Its femur alone is slightly more than six feet in length, while the femur 

 of the animal now being resurrected is nearly or quite eight feet in length. A measurement 

 of its lumbar vetebra across the centrum is thirteen inches, while a corresponding vertebra of 

 the fossil recently discovered is over sixteen inches in similar measurement. From the bones 

 disinterred, the Dinosaur in Wyoming, in comparison to the one at Yale, is in size about as 

 three is to two. 



The body of the Dinosaur is comparatively short, but extremely thick. Mr. Reed, in 

 conjecturing as to the probable appearance in life of the animal that he is restoring, said: 



"An accurate idea of a living Dinosaur is practically out of the question. According to 

 my opinion, I should say that the animal now being brought to light weighed in life about 

 sixty tons, that he had a neck thirty feet in length, and a tail perhaps sixty feet in length. 

 His ribs are about nine feet in length, and the cavity of his body with the lungs and entrails 

 out, would have made a hall thirty-four feet in length, sixteen feet in width, and arched over 

 probably twelve feet in height. Such a space, if properly arranged, would seat at least forty 

 people. A round steak taken from the ham of the animal would have been at least twelve 

 feet in diameter, or more than thirty-five feet in circumference, and would have had a solid 

 bone in the middle 12x14 inches, with no hollow for marrow. A set of fours in cavalry could 

 easily have ridden abreast between his front and hind legs, provided he had not objected. 

 Every time he put his foot down it covered more than a square yard of ground and must have 

 fairly shaken the earth. The smallness of the head of this animal is a peculiar thing. I 

 should say that the head of this mighty Dinosaur was probably not larger than a ten-gallon 

 keg. He must have been a very sluggish creature, as his brain cavity would certainly not 

 warrant the belief that that organ weighed to exceed four or five pounds. 



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