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diminutive creature only two feet in length, which was related 

 to those we have just been considering, and whose skeleton has 

 been found almost entire in the now famous Lithographic Stone 

 of Solenhofen in Bavaria. Of this unique type, the Compsogna- 

 thus, the skeleton of which is in many ways so bird-like, Professor 

 Huxley remarks, "It is impossible to look at the conformation 

 of this strange reptile and to doubt that it hopped, or walked, in 

 an erect or semi-erect position, after the manner of a bird, to 

 which its long neck, slight head, and small anterior limbs must 

 have given it an extraordinary resemblance." (See Fig. 47.) 

 But by far the greatest of all the carnivorous Dinosaurs was 



FIG. 48. Restored skeleton of the huge carnivorous Dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus 

 rex. (After Professor H. F. Osborn.) The shaded portions are the actual bones 

 discovered. A scale of meters is given at the side. 



the huge and fierce beast known now as Tyrannosaurus rex, a true 

 example of a " terrible lizard," as the word Dinosaur denotes. 

 Its length was about thirty-nine feet, and height about seventeen 

 feet ! Plate XV. is a photograph from a restored skeleton of Allo- 

 saurus and Fig. 48 gives a diagrammatic view of Tyrannosaurus, 

 with a human skeleton for comparison, and shows which parts 

 were actually discovered, and which are restored, the latter being 



