Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — Original Sea Serpents. [ARTICLE]

Original Sea Serpents.

The National museum at Waslv ington contains a notable display of the bones of several species of extinct mammals which, if seen alive in the ocean, would be called huge eea serpents. They were carnivorous, and their long slender jaws were armed with formidable teeth. Although a few remaining individuals of the group may have given actual basis for the sea-serpent stories, these extinct animals were not reptiles, but mammals which, like the whale and seal and otter, had happened to evolve in an aquatic environment.—Chicago Journal.