WILDS OF PATAGONIA
TRAVELLERS' TALES. PREHISTORIC REPTILE REPORTED. Pros Association—By T.ik> graph—Copyright. LONDON, March 20. (Received March 21, at 11.40 a.m.) The 'Daily Mail's' Buenos Ayies correspondent announces that an expedition has left for the wilds of Patagonia to search for a plesiosiuirus. This is tho outcome of haulers' stories of a monstrous pnv historic reptile which has been seen disporting itself in iremote pools at iho foot of the Andes. Scientists ridicule the possibility of such a creature being discovered, —A." and N.Z. Cable.
[The plesiosaurus was a, la.rgo marine reptile having a long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in tho Mesoswic Age.j
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Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 4
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109WILDS OF PATAGONIA Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 4
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