I have seen its skeleton in the
museum in London and a figure of one restored. I always thought
that the scientists who did such work depended principally upon an
overwrought imagination, but I see that I was wrong. This living
thing is not an exact counterpart of the restoration that I saw;
but it is so similar as to be easily recognizable, and then, too,
we must remember that during the ages that have elapsed since the
paleontologist's specimen lived many changes might have been wrought
by evolution in the living line that has quite evidently persisted
in Pal-ul-don."
"Triceratops, London, paleo--I don't know what you are talking
about," cried Pan-at-lee.
Tarzan smiled and threw a piece of dead wood at the face of the
angry creature below them. Instantly the great bony hood over the
neck was erected and a mad bellow rolled upward from the gigantic
body. Full twenty feet at the shoulder the thing stood, a dirty
slate-blue in color except for its yellow face with the blue bands
encircling the eyes, the red hood with the yellow lining and the
yellow belly. The three parallel lines of bony protuberances down
the back gave a further touch of color to the body, those following
the line of the spine being red, while those on either side
are yellow. The five- and three-toed hoofs of the ancient horned
dinosaurs had become talons in the gryf, but the three horns, two
large ones above the eyes and a median horn on the nose, had persisted
through all the ages.
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