Word: giant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heuvelmans points out that armchair zoologists have been announcing for nearly 150 years that no new animal would ever be found. But dozens have been found since then, including the Indian tapir, the Kodiak bear, the pygmy chimpanzee, the giant panda and the Komoda-dragon. Heuvelmans is confident that still more animals exist on earth than are dreamt of in the zoologist's handbooks...
...bigger than a man. The monks of one Tibetan monastery display to travelers the scalp of an alleged snowman, and Heuvelmans argues that its hair pattern, much like a gorilla's, proves it is not a fake made out of some animal's skin. The remains of giant ape-men have been found in southeastern Asia, and the yetis may be their descendants...
Mngwas & Mammoths. Heuvelmans presents evidence about dozens of shadowy creatures that are still waiting for acceptance. Africa swarms with unestablished animals, e.g., pygmy rhinoceroses, aquatic elephants and small, spotted mountain lions. Tanganyika has its mngwas, which are generally described as giant cats, big as donkeys, and striped like a household tabby. Natives of many parts of Africa believe in a 30-ft., dragonlike reptile with a long neck, that lives in swamps as did the long-extinct brontosaurus. Heuvelmans thinks it may be the strange, scaly creature shown in bas-relief on the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon...
...South America, giant sloths (Mylo-dons) as big as men survived long enough in the high wilds of Patagonia to be killed by ancient Indians. Their skins have been found in caves. A giant armadillo with a shell 12 ft. long was hunted too. The strange beasts reported by Indians living in Patagonia today may be giant sloths or armadillos that the ancient hunters missed...
...Within the next 30 years," says Author Knowles, "explorers would find almost 10 billion bbl. in its 70,000 square miles. There were more giant oil fields lying under this wasteland than would be found in any other single area in the U.S. . . . The 2,000,000 acres belonging to the University of Texas made it one of the richest universities in the world...