Animals Before Man 



manner of a modern street dress, but car- 

 ried clear of the ground to counterbalance 

 the weight of the body. The fore feet were 

 enormous paws, with 4 long, slender fingers, 

 one of which served as a thumb, so that the 

 animal could grasp and pull down branches. 

 Terrible to look at as this dinosaur must have 



A single row of teeth of the dinosaur Thespesius, showing the 

 manner in which they succeed one another. There are 400 

 of these teeth in each half of the lower jaw. About f natural 

 size. (After Marsh.) 



been, it was probably inoffensive, for the great 

 animal was strictly herbivorous and the teeth 

 small, although to make up for this lack of size 

 there were literally hundreds of them. For 

 reptiles have an advantage over us, in that as 



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