Word: baluchitherium
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...Your Ancestors), who sailed the seven seas in search of whales, led a series of expeditions (from 1916 to 1932) into uncharted areas of Asia, came back from the Gobi Desert with 70 million-year-old dinosaur eggs and fossils from the world's biggest land mammal (the baluchitherium), became director of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif...
Although the great hornless rhinoceros which paleontologists call Baluchitherium was undoubtedly the largest mammal that ever walked the Earth, not a trace of him was found until 1911. No complete skeleton of this 25,000,000-year-old monster exists anywhere, and the only skull, found in the Gobi by Dr. Walter Granger, is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dissatisfied with tentative representations of Baluchitherium as he looked in life, Dr. Granger decided that close study of the Museum's 200 miscellaneous bones would permit a more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion...
...they saw marmots pair off, stand "erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing." Once a car partially sank in quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted digging sites with field glasses. Having discovered a fossil...
...Have ninety cases fossils. Two skulls, many bones, skeleton of gigantic new mammal, possibly larger than Baluchitherium. Humerus big as man's body. Huge titanothere, extraordinary saddle-like skull. New mastodon, spatulate jaw, lower incisors eighteen inches wide...
...plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe; some marsupial (pouched) types; and traces of a human civilization that went from Europe into Asia...