126 Another Strange Homed Dinosaur 



lords of creation, that domineer over God's green 

 earth. 



Look at the picture again, and you will notice 

 two long spike-like projections over the openings 

 in the crest. They are evidently not horn-cores, 

 but bundles of ossified tendons, over which the 

 muscles intertwined, that controlled the power- 

 ful lower jaw. The entire skull is over five feet 

 long. Two horn-cores bend inward in the center 

 of the crest behind, and the rounded sides are 

 scultpred into bony knobs that in life were 

 doubtless covered with horn. This creature must 

 have been as large as the spiked dinosaur 

 nearly — at least nine feet long to the drop of 

 the tail, although I did not discover any skin im- 

 pression similar to that in Chasamosaurus, the 

 environment was the same boggy swamps and 

 mossy meadows, his skin scales were colored to 

 harmonize with his surroundings. He would not 

 be noticed when asleep in some rushy embras- 

 sure, and when feeding, he was ever alert, ready 

 to flee from his enemy Gorgosaurus, or if need be 

 face him and fight it out, as we saw the spiked 

 dinosaur along the margins of the cretaceous 

 lake. 



