SOURCE: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (All-Story Weekly, April 4-25, 1914)

DESCRIPTION:"We had barely entered the great plain when we discovered two enormous animals approaching us from a great distance. So far were they that we could not distinguish what manner of beasts they might be, but as they came closer, I saw that they were enormous quadrupeds, eighty or a hundred feet long, with tiny heads perched at the top of very long necks. Their heads must have been quite forty feet from the ground. The beasts moved very slowly—that is their action was slow—but their strides covered such a great distance that in reality they traveled considerably faster than a man walks..." (At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: The Thorians who live in the Land of the Awful Shadow ride the brontosaurian mounts.

HISTORY: One has to wonder what Burroughs ever thought of Alley Oop?

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