A PRE-HISTORIC ANIMAL

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14241, 16 December 1919, Page 6

A PRE-HISTORIC ANIMAL

THE REPORT FttOM THE CONGO. SCEPTICAL SCIENTISTS. (United Service.) LONDON. Dec. 13. The story of the discovery of the 'brontosaurus is regarded in London with mingled amusement and specticism. Scientists, however, have -not finally consigned the reports to the realms of fiction. Professor Chalmers Mitchell says that the discovery is possible, though unlikely. Similar stories were previously current. The ex-Kaiser supplied, the last, for when rioting tbc London Zoo he described the existence of a similar prehistoric monster in German East Africa. "A brontosaurus may be living in the Congo to-day," said Professor Mitchell, "but I would feel safe in offering £IOOO to id that it is not." ■Professor Smith Woodward, of the British Museum, is equally sceptical. He believes that the brontosaurus finally (disappeared with the arrival of the •Cretaceous period.