Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — WORLD’S BIGGEST SKELETON. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S BIGGEST SKELETON.

It has been long known that Wyoming was the graveyard of the largest animals which have at any time inhabited the earth. Professor W. H. Reid of the department of geology of the state university, while exploiting the fossil fields of Albany county, about ninety miles northwest of Laramie, during last August, discovered the fossil skeleton of the largest animal yet found in the world. The monster was a dweller in the jurassic age, known to science as a dinosaur, measuring nearly 180 feet in length, estimated to have been thirty feet in height at the hips and twenty-five at the shoulders, its petrified skeleton weighing more than 40,000 pounds. The only known fossil which approximates this dinosaur in size is the celebrated brontosaur in the Yale c allege museum, discovered some years ago in Wyoming by Prof. O. C. Marsh. This monster unearthed by Prof. Marsh is said to have been seventy feet in length, the new discovery by Prof. Reid eclipsing it by sixty feet in length. This recent discovery is said to put the reptilian fossil collection of the Wyoming university ahead of any in the world. When this dinosur is completely restored and mounted it will adorn the university campus and become one of the wonders of the world.

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