Mammal Skeleton
SIX MILLION YEARS OLD Australian and N.Z. Press Association. PEKING, August 17. A 6,000,000-year-old' skeleton of the biggest mammal ever known to have been in existence, 25 feet high and 25 .feet long, weighing between 15 and 20 tons, is among the important discoveries announced to-day by the American Central Asiatic- expedition, which has just returned to Peking from a three months’ expedition trip through Inner Mongolia. Other finds included the duckbilled dinosaur, giant iguano, measuring 100 feet, and the huge mastodon with a six foot jaw with teeth as big as shovels. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the expedition, who holds a theory that the Central Asiatic plateau was the cradle of the human race, had hoped to find traces of the so-called pre-drawn man which he believed existed there 2,000,000 years ago, but he was unsuccessful. He did, however, find important evidences of the stone age culture, similar to those found in France and Scandanavia.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 249, 20 August 1928, Page 2
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