Word: gidley
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Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...
Glyptotherium, a fossil giant armadillo, recovered from the Pliocene deposits of southern Arizona by Dr. J. W. Gidley, of the United States National Museum, has been brought to Washington and mounted. He is seven feet eight inches long, stands three feet high, and his shell weighs half a ton. Modern armadillos rarely exceed two feet in length...