General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History (1911) (14758671636)
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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO
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the animal. Two extraordinary armored dinosaursare represented by parts of their skele-tons. Ankylosaurus, which has been calledthe most ponderous animated citadelthe world has ever seen, was protectedabout its head and body by thick platesof bone, while the tail, instead of taperingto a point, ended in a great bonv ball. Nearby is the forepart of Palaoscincuswhose sides bristled with huge bonyspines and whose back was protected bybony plates. On the right and left of the entranceare two lightly but powerfully builtflesh-eating dinosaurs known as Gorgo-saurus. They were doubtless swift andfierce and preyed upon smaller andfeebler animals. Near these are examples of a smalldinosaur whose general appearance sug-gests an ostrich, but with a long tail. Onaccount of this resemblance it is knownas Struthiomimus. This bird-like appear-ance, however, is purely superficial as itis not at all related to the ostrich. Never- DINOSAURS AND THEIR EGGS (Protoceratops andrewsi). From the western Gobi
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