Word: dinosaures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process of assembly last week in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History was the skeleton of a 74-ft. dinosaur, a 130,000,000-year-old relic not much different in appearance from a few other such relics in a few other U. S. museums. This monster's recent history, however, was unique...
Texas. One hundred million years old were the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert by Roy Chapman Andrews. They were the earliest eggs known to Science until the return of Harvard's latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world...
...violation of agreements at the State convention. Declared disgusted Mr. Creel: "I think any one who votes in California this fall has to hold his nose. It's a choice between catalepsy and epilepsy. Sinclair has a fantastic, impossible plan and Merriam is as modern as the dinosaur...
...years ago Dr. Brown partly exposed the remains of two sauropods, was halted by lack of funds. This year Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs...
...This dinosaur, known as Triceratops eurycephalus (wide-head), represents the last recorded surviver of that great grump known as the Certopstaus...