A Living Dinosaur.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1910, Page 4

A Living Dinosaur.

A TIJAVKLLKirS TALK

A curious story is being told of iv living diucsttiir in the unexplored swamps of Rhodesia (says a writer in the ".Sydney Morning Herald". The local "folk-lore is raid to teem with references to such a reptile, and not a few natives assert that they have actually se'-n it, and such natives are sometimes unknown to each other and hundreds of miles apart. They are, further, said to agree in picking out si sketch of a dinosaur f,s representing tho beast from a number of sketches of extinct or imaginary monsters. It is said to have the head of a crocodile, with rhino horns, a neck like a python, the body of a hippo., and a crocodile's tail, all of _ great size -■not a Iμd crude description of a dinosaur. Between the Lun<ra and KiilVro "Rivers there is n small lake which is said to have no bottom, and tho natives say that at times its waters .are violently agitated. The giant reptilu appears, swims, and sims itself, screaming and .snorting, and Inshinff the water with tremendous fury." which is. perhaps, men>lv regret at beiiu: the last of all his race. Then he is not. soon .nf>llll for many moons. Mythical animals are, tin doubt, the reminiscence of extinct forms, but it \rhard to sav what iinnjjiniation eonplc'l to folk-lnv,. will not do. The dinosaurs had a world-wide distribution, but tliev beoin and -Mid with the Mesnzaie P'-riod. and thus flip'l out millions of year* before the first man armoared. They varied a good dfvil in-size, but a brontosnnrns is dwnb-d C>Off lon<r and an Atlantosnurus mav have ln-en 11.:")ffc Wo;. BipV'l'icilS Wivs iiwii thiin ilOft 'enn , with a skull in "'itlino much like'tbnt «f o luir«o. However, a h^".v> crocodile proh.nblv accounts for the rWv.