PREHISTORIC FOSSILS
GOBI DESERT DISCOVERIES. Peking, Oct. 8. The Central Asiatic Expedition, led by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, of the New York Museum of Natural History, has returned from five months’ intensive exploration of the Gobi Desert. It has brought back many prehistoric fossils. Nearly 100. different, species, many of which are new to science,.are represented in the collection, which is expected to throw much new light upon the evolution and dispersal of animal life millions of years ago. No human remains were discovered, but Dr. Andrews does not comsider that this'rules out the possibility that forerunners of the ‘‘Peking man” may yet be found in the Gobi region. “We have simply been looking for a needle in a bundle of hay, and' we have not yet found the needle,” Dr. Andreys declared in announcing that negotiations were proceeding with the Chinese authorities for a continuation of the work in 1931.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1930, Page 9
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