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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...
...proposed expedition of scientists into the wilds of Patagonia to secure--"dead or alive"--the much-talked-of Plesiosaurus, the reported living relic of the--mesozoic age, has met with unexpected difficulties: the Argentine Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has taken a firm stand against any such desiccation of natural wonders. This stand has astonished not a few of our great American dailies which have been prone to ridicule it as the result of superabundant Latin sympathy for the feelings of the "saurus", who--having since before tertiary times led a life of untrammeled prehistoric ease...
...northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered in Tripoli Harbor the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia; sunk there by Lieutenant Decateur just one hundred years before. In 1907 he transferred his explorations from Africa to South America. His scientific explorations during the next three years in Patagonia and Venezuela enabled him to make valuable collec- tions which he later gave to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Peabody Museum of the University...