EXPLORERS FIND HUGE SKELETONS.
CHINESE' DISCOVERIES. Pekin, August 17. A 6,000,000 year-old skeleton of the biggest mammal ever in existence, 25 feet high and 25 feet long, weighing between 15 and 20 tons, is among the important discoveries announced to-day by the American Central Asiatic expedition, which has just returned to Pekin from a three months’ exploration trip through inner Mongolia. Other finds included a duck-bil-led dinosaur, a giant iguano, measuring 100 feet, and a huge mastodon with a six-foot jaw and with teeth as big as a shovel. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the expedition, who holds the theory that the Central Asiatic Plateau was the cradle of the human race, had hoped to find traces of so-called predawn man which he believed existed there 2,000,000 years ago. He was unsuccessful. He did, however, find important evidences of a stone-age culture, similar to those found in France and Scandinavia.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3834, 21 August 1928, Page 3
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151EXPLORERS FIND HUGE SKELETONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3834, 21 August 1928, Page 3
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