ANCIENT FINDS IN S. AFRICA
' TORTOISE 8 FT. LONG. JOHANNESBURG, March 17. The remains of a prehistoric lortoise Bft. long and a relic of a horse 'vlii’-h must, have been 10ft. high are rnieug the latest, finds by South Afri-: can arehuelogisls. A farm?r in the Tarkasuid district of; the Cape Province sent a strange bonel to the East London Museum and an I expedition dispatched to the wenc ol'j the discovery unearthed a comp] t<-' fossilised skeleton, identified as that of a kannemeyeria simocephalus. al rar .- prehistoric creature resembling ai tortoise. It is believed that there is| only one other complete specimen in' tin Empire. Near Ladysmith, Natal, on a site which was once a great swamp, scientists have unearthed a tooth identified as bolon-ting to a gigantic ho v -e. t.ie> Equtts capensis. Further excavations!
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1935, Page 4
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