May 15th is National Dinosaur Day! Imagine taking your stegosaurus for a walk. Everything is going well as you try to keep pace, hoping that it does not become sidetracked and decide to chase a squirrel or mailman, slapping you with its spiky tail in the process. Yes, this is what I think about if dinosaurs and humans coexisted. The article, featured in the May 12, 1922 Perth Amboy Evening News, shows fossilized skeletons and models of the prehistoric animals that once heroically walked this Earth. Fossils of plesiosaurs were found in America. These fish-eating reptiles have a body length of 30 feet, a turtle-shaped body, flippers like a whale, and a long neck. According to the article, an 84-foot skeleton of an aquatic-loving diplodocus is displayed in the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. These creatures must have lived in the water, feasting on aquatic plants. And let’s also not forget the triceratops and the tyrannosaurus rex, or “king of the tyrant lizards.”
Fossil reptiles are Charles W Gilmore’s best friends as shown in the image above featured in the September 19, 1919 Perth Amboy Evening News.
Imagine finding dinosaur eggs that are 10,000,000 years old! The eggs in the image above, featured in the November 21, 1923 Perth Amboy Evening News, were laid by dinosaurs in western Mongolia and were shipped to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Image above, featured in the March 31, 1923 Perth Amboy Evening News, shows well preserved dinosaur tracks discovered in Colorado. Similar tracks were found in brown sandstone in Connecticut Valley.
(Contributed by Kristi Chanda)