GIANT MANOSAURS
FOSSILS IN MANITOBA. WINNIPEG, Aug. 10. Two giant lizards of the prehistoric seas are being unearthed from a clay belt near Morden, Manitoba, and presently will find a place in the National Museum at Ottawa. They are declared the finest specimens of the manosaur ever found in Canada. Experts estimate that they lived some 60 million years ago when water covered what is now central North America. The fossils were discovered eight feet below the surface. One is 33 feet long, and the other a little shorter. The manosaur was a sinuous creature with overlapping scales, a V-shaped head, four flippers, and a tail half its length. It -was not unlike, in face, some of the descriptions of “seaserpents” given in modern times by imaginative observers of the scene.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 207, 1 September 1934, Page 16
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131GIANT MANOSAURS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 207, 1 September 1934, Page 16
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