SOME RARE FOSSILS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 April 1901, Page 4

SOME RARE FOSSILS.

Several interesting exhibits (says the Express) have lately been added to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. Among the most striking arc some bones formerly the property of a ptcranodon, a gigantic: flying reptile found in the chalk formation of Kansas. Judging from its framework, the ptoranodon was a fearful wild fowl when alive. Its wingbones measure 18ft across. There is also the skeleton of a pleisoraus about 12ft long by 4ft wide. It emanates from tho Oxford clay of Peterborough. The bones are so beautifully preserved by the clay that pleisaurus might have abandoned thorn only last year. Another skeleton newly set up is that of a dodo, which was found in a swamp in Mantins. Some gigantic bones, once the property of the dinosaur, the largest land animal of which we have any trace, are being sent to South Kensington by the American Museum at Washington. The dinosaur was a gigantic beast as high as a two-storied house, which gambolled about the world in the Oxford clay age. It had legs 12 feet long. There were two kinds of dinosaurs, the carnivorous dinosaur and the herbivorous or herbeating dinosaur. The carnivorous dinosaur used to slay its herbivores brother, perhaps as a protest against vegetarianism.