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I think they used to splash about the water and fly over the land during the carboniferous period; anyway, it doesn't matter. Of course you have seen pictures of reconstructed creatures such as the ichthyosaurus, the plesiosaurus, the anthracosaurus, and the thermosaurus? "I nodded, trying to keep my eyes from hers.
"I looked at her in amazement. "'Then, she added, calmly, 'we have captured the thermosaurus. "'Your father, said I, at length, 'must have spent years of labor over this preparation. "'It is the work of a lifetime, she said, simply. "My face, I suppose, showed my misgivings. "'It must not fail, she added. "'But but we are nowhere near the Gulf Stream, I ventured.
It is believed that the birds attacked the eyes of the thermosaurus, and when, as was its habit, the mammoth creature turned on its back to claw them, they fell upon the thinner scales of its stomach armor and finally killed it. This, of course, is a theory, but we have almost absolute proofs of its correctness. Now, these two birds are known among scientists as the ekaf-bird and the ool-yllik.
You'll do yeoman's service yet. "It was nearly midnight, and still we chatted on about the thermosaurus, the ekaf-bird, and the ool-yllik, eagerly discussing the probability of the great reptile's carcass being in the vicinity. That alone seemed to explain the presence of these prehistoric birds at Pine Inlet. "'Do they ever attack human beings? I asked. "The professor looked startled.
"'Ever since the carcass of our derelict thermosaurus was first noticed, every captain who has seen it has also reported the presence of one or more gigantic birds in the neighborhood. These birds, at a great distance, appeared to be hovering over the carcass, but on the approach of a vessel they disappeared. Even in mid-ocean they were observed. When I heard about it I was puzzled.
"'He proved it by a minute examination of the microscopical shells found among the ribs of the thermosaurus. These shells contained little creatures that live only in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. They were the food of the thermosaurus. "'It was rather slender rations for a thing like that, wasn't it? Did he ever swallow bigger food er men? "'Oh yes.
"'We constructed that from measurements I took from the fossil remains of the thermosaurus in the Metropolitan Museum. Professor Bruce Stoddard made the drawings. We set it up here, all ready to receive the skin of the carcass that I am expecting. "We had started towards home, walking slowly across the darkening dunes, shoulder to shoulder. The sand was deep, and walking was not easy.
He also has in preparation sixteen volumes on the thermosaurus. He said this morning that he was going to ask you to write the story first for some scientific magazine. He is certain that Professor Bruce Stoddard, of Columbia, will write the pamphlets necessary. This will give papa time to attend to the sixteen-volume work, which he expects to finish in three years.
"'And you know that the remains of the thermosaurus were first discovered and reconstructed by papa? "'Yes, said I. There was no use in saying no. "'I am glad you do. Now, papa has proved that this creature lived entirely in the Gulf Stream, emerging for occasional flights across an ocean or two. Can you imagine how he proved it? "'No, said I, resolutely pointing my nose at the ocean.
Tons of fossil bones from prehistoric men are also found in the interior of the thermosaurus. "'Then, said I, 'you, at least, had better go back to Captain McPeek's "'Please turn around; don't be so foolish. I didn't say there was a live thermosaurus in the water, did I? "'Isn't there? "'Why, no! "My relief was genuine, but I thought of the rifle and looked suspiciously out to sea.
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