INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 9

INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

REMAINS OF BINASAUE.; FtFJST FIND IN INDIA. LINK .WITH ANCIENT DAYS. By Telegraph—Presa Associatiofr—Copytialit, Sun. LONDON. July 24, An important link in. the chain of zoological evidence of the existence in prehistoric ages of a vast continent connecting India and Africa has been obtained. There have been discovered at Jubbulpore, Sritish India (Central Provinces), extensive remains of an armed dinosaur similar to those found years ago in Tanganyika, in equatorial Africa. Armed dinosaur remains have nob been i discovered previously "in India. It is prei sumed by experts that these remains were J deposited at the end of the cretacean .-period. . '.■■■' The discovery is regarded as comparable in interest with Ihe recent American find of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert, Mongolia. The American expedition referred to in the cable message not only discovered skulls and skeletons of dinosaurs of various types, living from perhaps 10 to 5 million years ago, but of dinosaur eggs in a fossilised condition. : : In one of these there was plainly to be seen the pure white embryo skeleton .of-van unborn dinosaur embedded in the reddish rocky substance, into which the egg had been transposed by the processes of nature. The significance of the discovery was recently explained to a representative of the London Observer by Dr. C. W. Andrews, of the South Kensington Museum. "It extends," he said, "our knowledge of the area over which the dinosaurs lived. Hitherto China and Mongolia: have been almost a blank from the vertebrate fossil point of view; but now this American exI padition has discovered great deposits not only of,the secondary period containing reptilian remains, but also a succession of tertiary deposits, containing several groups of fossil mammals. That, perhaps, is,the chief point of the discovery. We may now get to know the early history of some of the groups of which our knowledge in the past has been very limited. The discoveries also support the .theory that ages ago continents were continuous. Dr. Osborn, a leading palaeontologist, says - he is satisfied that the Montana dinosaurs ; sprang from those bred on the Mongolian , steppes, that that passage had been ef-l fected by the Behring Straits ; that its submersion occurred about 250,000 i ■years ago."' ;:- ; V ; ~ - ' : ;, '■■ V'' :