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After they had unearthed nearly an entire skeleton, 

 and had sent this skeleton to a museum, where it was 

 taken from the rock, it was seen that a very large 

 animal had been found. So he was named Titano- 

 therium, which means Gigantic Beast. 



After this first Titanotherium had been discovered, 

 many fossil hunters from different museums worked 

 industriously to find others, and succeeded even 

 beyond their expectations. Skeletons of these crea- 

 tures were taken from the bluffs to a depth of one 

 hundred and eighty feet. Below this depth, other 

 animals were found which were just like the Titano- 

 therium, only of smaller size and with shorter horns. 

 This made the fossil hunters all the more eager to 

 continue their search. The result was that the 

 farther down the bluffs they went the smaller were 

 the skeletons they unearthed. At last, after work- 

 ing for many summers, they came upon the Titano- 

 therium's first ancestor, the small creature with the 

 stubby knobs sticking up on the end of his nose ! 

 The name Titanothere was given this entire family 

 of animals, but the largest species of that family 

 still goes by the name of Titanotherium. And 



