TITANOTHERES AND OTHERS 



After the Dinoceras had disappeared from the 

 western part of the United States, there were still 

 many strange animals making their homes in that 

 section of the world. And in no place were they more 

 numerous than the locality in South Dakota now 

 called "The Bad Lands." These lands are well 

 named, for one may walk through them for miles 

 over a floor of rock, and see nothing in any direction 

 but other rocks of fantastic shape and wholly bare 

 of vegetation. 



Yet, long ago, it was quite different. There were 

 lakes all through this part of Dakota, and in the 

 country around these lakes grew plants of many 

 kinds. The climate was sunny and warm, and in 

 these congenial surroundings lived numberless 

 animals. Among them were some creatures about 

 the size of a Shetland pony and not at all pleasing 

 in appearance. Their heads were very odd in shape, 

 for in the center of the top was a deep depression just 



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