Word: patagonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South America. A rich deposit of dinosaur fossils was discovered along the Rio Chico in the Chubut Territory of Patagonia, by a party from the Field Museum, Chicago, under Professor Elmer S. Riggs...
South America. The alleged Tertiary human skull discovered in Patagonia (TIME, April 28, May 12) was declared nothing but a piece of solid sandstone, shaped with curiously human-like features, by Prof. Elmer S. Riggs, paleontologist of the Field Museum, Chicago. "Only one of nature's little jokes," said...
Buenos Ayres scientists who have examined the alleged Tertiary skull discovered by Dr. J. G. Wolfe in Patagonia claim it is merely a curiously shaped stone of no scientific value. The Field Museum expedition, under Dr. E. S. Riggs, which went to verify the skull, is reported to have discovered the femur of a dinosaur...
...human skull claimed to be of the Tertiary period, found in Patagonia by Dr. J. G. Wolf, under the auspices of La Plata Museum. If this claim can be substantiated, ape-men existed on the earth several hundred thousand years earlier than has hitherto been proved. But the circumstances are suspicious. The skull was found in the possession of a white settler who dug it out of Pampas deposits, which may or may not be Tertiary. Scientific men are now on the way to Patagonia (which has furnished "mare's nests" before) to investigate the claim...
...Patagonia was found a human skull, half a million years older than the famous Java head, aged...