Woodward in a recent paper refers to a still more curious resemblance of the Dinosaurs to the biped lizard of Australia (Chlamydosaurus), which runs on its hind limbs, and even perches on trees.
Those great reptilian lords, the biped Saurians of the Mesozoic, already foreshadowed his erect posture, though their limbs may have been more ornithic than mammalian.
Biped is a genus with reference to man and bird, but a species with respect to the superior genus, animal.
But to what does man owe this erect and biped attitude?
The gibbon, better adapted to biped progression, and having a less heavy jaw, has no skull-crests.
Primitive man has never had a caudal appendage since he acquired the biped attitude; the disappearance of the tail is even one of the indispensable conditions of that attitude.
According to him, the excessive development of the brain, while conducive to enlargement of the skull, would at the same time determine the change of attitude in a being so imperfectly and primitively biped as was our progenitor.
All the other characters which distinguish man from the anthropoid apes are only the consequences of the great enlargement of his brain-case, at the expense of the maxillary part of the face, and of the erect attitude and biped progression.
Instead of holding himself in a bending position, and walking supported on his arms, man walks in an erect attitude--the truly biped mode of progress.
If the two legs of a biped are both in action and raised from the ground, their congeners, still resting in inaction, will carry the total weight of the other two, or 500 pounds.
That biped Shank's mare is a very respectable animal, which you may borrow; or any body else's who may be disposed to lend.
It required, however, but a few generations of experience to show these creatures that the unfeathered biped was a singularly dangerous animal, and they at once and permanently adopted the habit of avoiding him.
Having probably never seen a biped before, both animals were consumed with curiosity and comparatively unafraid.
Thus, he may predicatebiped as a proprium always belonging to man.
Here the case is reversed; man and biped are the accidents or accompaniments; master is the Essence.
Is itbiped or quadruped, fish, flesh, fowl, or insect?
These severe words, and a smart push, sent the poor little biped off roaring, with the string over her shoulder, recklessly dragging the terrific quadruped, which made fruitless grabs at the shingle.
He seemed happier than his working brother; but the biped whose career corresponded with this playful animal's was not happy!
The serenade, if not the banquet, was in honor of the whole party, biped and quadruped.
Considering the tenderness of her mood toward the four-footed fakir, her change was sudden and radical toward the biped of the pair when she grasped that he intended to send her home in a taxi.
Casting off speculation as unprofitable for the nonce, Why-Not Pape kept after her, trailing with care lest she realize that her biped protector had more doggedness than the rebuked canine.
Presently both biped and quadruped were in deep water, when they parted company, and all that we could see was a glazed hat and a red face, and a redder face and a pair of horns, making for the shore again as fast as they could.
This test isn't over yet and our featherless biped isn't necessarily licked.
In every respect we uphold the biped lions against their four-footed namesakes, and we boldly challenge controversy upon the subject.
After a while the struggle between biped and quadruped was brought to a termination.
For my part, I don't know one male biped in whose eyes I care to appear attractive.
It was a modified biped of plant-eating habits, a little more than 10 feet long, with its skull and part of the tail missing.
Contrast this with the diminutive Laosaurus, a 2½-foot biped which ranks as the smallest dinosaur yet taken from the deposit.
He carried a staff like a long handspike, and prodded the biped on his needless feet, to make him wish to be relieved of them.
The bang-up blades were pushing their prads along in gay style, accompanied by two friends, that is to say, a biped and a quadruped.
Its powers are as vast as wonderful and goodly, and extend over all animal and animated nature, biped and quadruped, the earth, the air, and all that therein is.
He is always accompanied by a brace at least of dogs in his morning visits; and it is not easy to determine on these occasions which is the most troublesome animal of the two, the biped or the quadruped.
