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Marvels of the Universe 



Zealand. The earliest Dinosaurs were certainh' carnivorous, and this flesh-eating type de- 

 veloped in course of time into formidable reptiles of from fifteen to thirty feet in length, though 

 never such monsters in bulk as grew up in the course of ages out of the herbivorous or seaweed- 

 eating Dinosaurs. 



The vegetable-eating Dinosaurs reached an extravagant size, and evolved many strange growths 

 of armour in course of time. It is popularly supposed that these marvellous monsters occurred 

 mainly in North America ; but although the biggest-known Dinosaurs are found in the later 

 Secondary formations of the United States, there were others almost equalh' great inhabiting 

 England, Belgium, France, Germany, East Africa and India. Some of these monsters seem to have 

 ranged, with very little variation in species, between \Vestern Europe and North America. Of 



Photo III ppr7tii\sion oQ ^ [>'"■ //. //. .'ofni^fon. 



A DINOSAUR. . v^^ir,. 



The Dinosaur here represented is one of the flesh-eating kind. It will be noticed that it is a much smaller reptile than 

 the huge Stegosaur on the previous pace, which is a vegetable feeder. 



such was the Stegosaur of Colorado, here illustrated, which reappears in the closely-allied 

 Omosaurus, in the formations of Oxfordshire and Dorsetshire, or as Polacanthus in the Isle of 

 Wight. The picture which is given of a Stegosaur should be considered, perhaps, an American 

 subject ; the huge armoured reptile which has been restored with such wonderful vividness and 

 accuracy by Herr A. Pallenberg, for exhibition in the gardens of Carl Hagenbeck's famous 

 animal park at Stellingen, being almost certainly the American Stegosaur. The carnivorous 

 Dinosaur, with its spinal crest of bony plates, is intended for a Megalosaur. The Megalosaurs 

 originated in Europe, and are most commonly met with there in the formations representing 

 the first three quarters of the Secondary Epoch, but they afterwards extended their range to 

 western North America in time to attack and perhaps help to extinguish the last pre- 

 posterous Stegosaur. 



