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FEATHERED GIANTS 
“There were giants in the earth in those days.” 
Nearly every group of animals has its giants, © 
its species which tower above their fellows as — 
Goliath of Gath stood head and shoulders — 
above the Philistine hosts; and while some of — 
these are giants only in comparison with their | 
fellows, belonging to families whose members — 
are short of stature, others are sufficiently 
great to be called giants under any circum- 
stances. Some of these giants live to-day, 
some have but recently passed away, and some 
ceased to be long ages before man trod this 
earth. The most gigantic of mammals — the 
whales — still survive, and the elephant of to- 
day suffers but little in comparison with the 
mammoth of yesterday ; the monstrous Dino- 
saurs, greatest of all reptiles — greatest, In ~ 
fact, of all animals that have walked the ~ 
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