24 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



bones after all the other soft parts of the body had 

 been destroyed. These skins indicate that the two 

 Dinosaurs when living were covered with small, 

 horny scales like those seen on the lizards of to-day. 



Fierce battles were fought by these animals 

 during the thousands of years they were the kings 

 and queens of the earth. They not only had enemies 

 among other animals, but they attacked one an- 

 other with intense ferocity. In these battles the 

 flesh eaters stood the best chance of winning; for* 

 while they were smaller than many of the plant eaters 

 they were much stronger. All of these flesh-eating 

 Dinosaurs walked on their hind legs, which in some 

 species like the vicious Allosaurus were seven feet 

 long. They could leap and run with great rapidity 

 and after they had once caught their prey, it seldom 

 escaped them. They held this prey in their grasp 

 with their powerful hind legs while they tore it to 

 pieces with their teeth. 



But some of the plant eaters were so hideous that 

 no flesh-eating Dinosaur, however strong, need have 

 apologized to himself for being frightened when he 

 met one of them. There was Stegosaurus, for in- 



