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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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During the Cretaceous periotl, the evening of the Mesozoic era.triceratops, the last and noblest of the dinosaurian race, appeared..\lready the reptile orders of sea. land, and air were experiencing a waning glorw and wert- \ielding before races bcttrr adapted to the THE EVOI.lfTlOX Ol CL.IMATI.. .1.-^ chan^inj;- vicissituclcs of climate and resultant ves^etation. AlreadyArchaiopteryx (Fig. \I1). the reptile-like bird, was usurping thedomain of the pterodactyl and pteranodon. Already the first dimin-utive mammals were roaming through the first flowering pasturesand blossoming woods, for the gymnosperms or flowerless plantswere yielding to the angiosperms or flower-bearing vegetation. Re-frigeration had brought the world forward to a more modern stage,but triceratops still roamed the marshes, hills, and plains, a strangeramong strangers, a grand but forlorn representati\-c of a decadent
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Fig. A II. The most primitive bird.Museum.) ARCHAEOPTERYX.(From the specimen in the Berhn race; he walked as do the quadrupeds, and the crowning glory ofhis twenty-five-foot body was his six-foot armored head, with threegreat horns or knobs ranging upward in a single row from near theiwint of his massive nose to the crown of his brainless head. But 656 THE OPEN COURT. triceratops died and joined his fellow dinosaurs. A diagnosis of thecause of his death would have been over-specialization, changingclimate and vegetation, and to make room for a superior race. Contemporaneous with Archseopteryx, the primitive bird withreptile-like caudal appendage, was Ctenacodon, the earliest knownmammal, found in the upper Jurassic stone of Wyoming; that dimin-utive creature was but little if any larger than a mouse, and anhumble successor to the mighty horde of reptiles then in the fadingtwilight of their ponderous, physical ascendency, and nearing theirlast, long degradation to the dust from which t

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