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VALDEZ, Alaska--Bradford Washburn, Harvard Geographer and leader of the University's Alaskan expedition, reported today that all equipment had reached the first base camp on the Natuanuska Glacier near here. The group will survey the unmapped Chugach Mountain Range...
...Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent a telegram to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of Alaska Agricultural College & School of Mines, asking him to investigate. Two days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed the discovery. He found the animal to be only 24 ft. long, resembling a huge lizard with a long tail and tapering head. He said it had a snout like a pelican's beak, a head like an elephant. He found no fur. Six feet of flesh were preserved...