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Dinosaurs

CHAPTER XI
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It is, I think, accurate--for a restoration--as well as interesting and up-to-date.

These restorations are the "working hypotheses" of our science; they express the present state of our knowledge, and, being subject to modification by future discoveries, are liable to constant change.
By contrast, the second type of giant dinosaur, the _Brontosaurus_, or "thunder saurian" of Marsh, as shown in the restoration (fig.

22), was far more massive in structure and relatively shorter in body.

Five more or less complete skeletons are now to be seen in the Yale, American, Carnegie, and Field Columbian museums.

In 1898 we discovered in the bluffs, about three miles west of the Bone-Cabin Quarry, the largest of these animals which has yet been found; it was worked out with great care and is now being restored and mounted complete in the American Museum.


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