REMAINS OF GIANT APEMAN DISCOVERED IN SOUTH AFRICA
NEW YORK. Fossil remains of the. largest apeman ever found have been unearthed by an American expedition in South Africa. The newest apeman, experts say, was larger than the 9ft Java man whose remains were discovered some years ago. The bones were found embedded in a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, by Mr Wendell Phillips, leader of a University of California expedition. The new giant, which will be. called the Swartkrans man, is the fourth apeman type found in South Africa in recent years, but the earlier specimens were only four feet tall. The expedition recovered only the lower jaw and teeth, but from these remains the experts deduced its size. The teeth of the Swartkrans man were typically human, and very unlike those of an anthropoid ape, said Dr Robert Broom, palaeontologist at the Transvaal Museum. All South African apeman experts say that the giant lived in an age ranging from 500,000 to 5,000,000 years ago.
REMAINS OF GIANT APEMAN DISCOVERED IN SOUTH AFRICA
Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 9
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