30 feet of neck on shoulders, 20 feet high
That’s What Newest Found Gigantosaurus Has, and Now the Scientists Are Going to Search For A Live One in Africa’s Swamps.
The Washington Herald, December 27, 1914
SUPPOSE a gigantosaurus with a length of a hundred feet and a height of twenty feet at the shoulders should come walking along the main street of the town! Wouldn’t It cause a little excitement?
Each of his feet could easily cover a street car and smash Ii and its passengers to a state beyond recognition. He could easily look over the top of an eight-story building without straining his neck In the least. He could easily In his playfulness push over a two or three-story house or building without any effort at all. And If he took it into his head to roll over on his back while the crowds were gazing in awe at him. there would be something more than a hundred people who would never know what had happened to them.
It isn’t probable that a gigantosaurus will come to town, but It is within the realms of possibility. The gigantosauri, like the fools, are not all dead yet, it seems. If the word of Charles Brooks, an explorer and scientist, and of Carl Hagenback, the animal dealer, is to be believed, there are gigantosauri still loose In the dark, damp, sultry heart of Africa. If they are not gigantosauri they are animals equally as great and fierce, and almost any day now one of them may he shot, lassoed or trapped and brought to America to push over a building or two.
The finding of the bones In East Africa of the biggest gigantosaurus yet known to scientists gives further weight to the statements of Brooks and Hages back that there are prehistoric monsters still in existence in Africa’s swamps. It was a German expedition which found the remains, and after spending two years putting them together, the expedition announces It has assembled the most gigantic glgantosaurus yet known to man.
Charles Brooks, explorer, scientist and hunter, says that some of the impenetrable swamps of northern Rhodesia, along the southern border of the Sahara desert, may contain almost anything. The natives, he says, have told him that there are creatures in that region so big that they make elephants look like small cats.
There is also Carl Hagen back to hear testimony. The famous animal trainer and merchant astounded the scientific world by asserting in his book, “Beasts and Man” that the natives of Africa had described to him “a huge monster, half beast, half dragon,” which Inhabited these swamps.