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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The American Museum J OURNAL Volume XVII JANUARY. iU17 Number 1 The "Ostrich" Dinosaur and the "Tyrant" Dinosaur By H E X R Y FAIRFIELD O S B O R X This article illustrates some of the methods as well as the "perils" of the restoration of extinct animals from their more or less complete skeletons. A restoration presents the author's theory of the habits of the animal, how it moved, how it fed, how it attacked its prey or escaped from enemies, also the environment in which it lived. In the present in- stance a dinosaur which was restored and named by the author as an habitual "bird robber" has proved through our discovery of one of its descendants to have followed a less destruc- tive calling. This descendant is known as the "ostrich dinosaur," in relation to a theory of its habits which may in turn prove untenable.^—The Author. OXE of the American Museum expeditions of 1902 was hunt- ing dinosaurs in the great geo- logical deposit known as the "Bone- Cabin Quarry" in central Wyoming, not far north of the old line of the Union Pacific Railway. Among the remains of hundreds of skeletons of large forms which we found crowded into this quarry, we discovered one very small,
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Ornitholestes, the "Bird Robber," and Archaopterj/x.~Originn\ restoration, b.v Osborn and Knight, of Ornitholestes as a bird robber, capturing an Archceopteryx. Now regarded as an improbable inter- pretation of the habits of this animal

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