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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
A RELIC OF THE EARLY 80’s. 
Buffalo hunter’s caliin on Hell Creek, at the edge of the grasslands, with a typical butte in the distance. 
Photograph by L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Montana. 
the top of the little peak, Mr. Brown located 
huge fossil bones, firmly embedded in “flinty- 
coneretion” rock, and overlaid by many feet of 
sandstone. 
It was the “King of the Tyrant Saurians,” 
now famous throughout the scientific world as 
the type specimen of a new genus and new 
species of giant carnivorous dinosaur, the largest 
of all such, christened by Prof. Osborn as 
Tyrannosaurzis rex. 
Max Sieber’s conical butte yielded the com¬ 
plete hind legs, pelvis and skull of the type 
specimen as these members now stand mounted 
a la life, in the American Museum of Natural 
History. It is about 12 feet from the top of 
the pedestal to the top of the pelvis. The 
skeleton’s hind legs look very much like the 
legs of a gigantic ostrich. 
In a case near by is a magnificent skull of 
this Tyrant Dinosaur, 4 feet long, about 30 
inches wide and 36 inches high. The jaws are 
set with a terrifying array of teeth, shaped 
very much like the largest teeth of a crocodile, 
and the largest teeth measure five and a half 
inches outside the jaws. These jaws and teeth 
must have taken out of the helpless herbivorous 
dinosaurs on which they fed, about 50 pounds 
of meat at a single bite. 
But the most astounding specimen remains to 
be mentioned. Also in the Museum, and near by 
this type, stands an adult and complete mounted 
skeleton of this giant reptile. It is 18^ feet 
high, and 47 feet long! It stands erect on its 
huge hind legs like a stupendous kangaroo, but 
were it alive today, it could eat kangaroos of 
all sizes by the dozen, just like picking cherries. 
Yes, my Triceratops did live on the old Hell 
Creek lake bed, along with the Tyrannosaurus 
and probably the Duck-Billed Dinosaur. Both 
the first and the last were herbivores but the 
Triceratops was far from being defenseless. 
His two rear horns had good calibre and pene¬ 
tration, and they pointed forward absolutely 
right for puncturing the abdominal balloon of 
a hungry Tyrannosaurus. I will guarantee that 
on many occasions those horns rendered excel¬ 
lent service in promoting the survival of Tricer¬ 
atops against his savage enemy. 
