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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #52399 Wyoming and Colorado
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Some  interesting  facts  about  the  great  reptilian  fossils  recently  discovered  in  Wyoming  and  Colorado  have  come  to  light.  The  bones    represent  reptiles  of  many  sizes,  from  that  of  a  cat  up  to  one  sixty  feet  high.  The  latter,  found  at  Como,  Wyoming,  belonged  to  the  crocodile  order;  but  the  remains  give    that  the  animal  stood  up  on  its  hind  legs,  like  a  kangaroo.  Another  found  in  Colorado  is  estimated  to  have  been  100  feet  long.  A  great  many  remains  of  the  same  general  class,  but  belonging  to  different  species,  have  been  collected  and  sent  East.  Among  them  from  three  to  four  hundred  specimens  of  the  dinosaur,  and  about  a  thousand  pterodactyls,  have  been  shipped  from  Colorado,  Wyoming,  and  Kansas.  The  wings  of  one  of  the  latter  were  from  thirty  to  forty  feet  from  tip  to  tip.  Seventeen  different  species  of  these  flying  dragons  have  been  found  in  the  chalk  of  western  Kansas.  There  have  also  been  found  six  species  of  toothed  birds.  Comparatively  little  has  been  done  toward  classifying  the  late  finds,  and  the  task  is  such  an    one.  Great  importance  is  attached  to  them,  however,  since  nothing  of  the  kind  had  been  found  in  America  until  a  little  over  a  year  ago  and  great    had  been  laid  by  certain  geologists  on  their  absence.  Another  remarkable  feature  of  the  discovery  was  that  the  fossils  which  had  been  reported  as  not  existing  in  this  country  had  hardly  been  brought  to  light  in  one  locality  before  thousands  of  tons  of  them  were  simultaneously  discovered  in  half  a  dozen  different  .

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