26 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



stance. He looked far worse than his name sounds, 

 and that is saying a great deal against his appearance. 

 He had a small head and no neck to speak of; 

 his front legs were so short that his nose almost 

 touched the ground, yet his hind legs were twice as 

 tall as a well-grown man. Then he had spikes on 

 his tail, and hard lumps all over his body, down the 

 center of which were bony crests two feet long and 

 sticking up two feet high, and — 



But why tell more ? Is not this description suffi- 

 cient to prove that Stegosaurus, or, to use his English 

 name, Plated Lizard, was ugly enough to justify even 

 the strongest flesh-eating Dinosaur in running away 

 when he saw him coming ? 



And then again, there was Triceratops, the Dino- 

 saur with the three-horned face, for that is what the 

 name means. These horns grew, one over each eye 

 and one on the end of the nose. Around his neck 

 this creature had a wide, tough frill that gave him an 

 astonishing appearance. Hard knobs were thickly 

 scattered over his back and tail, and, taken alto- 

 gether, Triceratops rivaled Stegosaurus in ugliness 

 while he was a more dangerous foe- for an enemy to 



