MASTODONS’ REMAINS
IMPORTANT FOSSIL ■ ■ ■ i ; Peking, The remains of -30 mastodons or • platybelodon, with; projecting jaws averaging sJftf have been discovered by the Museum o.f Natural History’s Asiatic Expedition. Mr, Roy Chapman Andrews,. leaderjß the expedition, who returned to, Pekils| last night on a flying visit, th&| the fossil deposits were, he -believed, tlyi most amazing ever revealed to eyes. •. ,71 The expedition, found thjein, shores of a dried-up inland sea., borders of outer Mongol’ a, buried in a huge death-tmp, a mass of soft -mud,-' wlmrei beasts were evidently , -' au B searching for food. Close by was a bog hole con baby mastodons, p-esumally by their parents when tricate themselves from quicksands. Mr. Andrews declared. possible to make a per I cot of this strange beast, which he fIMH as one of the most extriim i ations of th 6. .whole'-
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 7
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