Word: semi-human
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...called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green toad with a semi-human crested head making a horrid bawling grimace. It is about the size of a big apple, with holes in the topknot and sides, apparently for use as an ornament. Last week jade experts swarmed around the toad-tiger...
...Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws found near Heidelberg are probably about 400,000 years old. They are apelike, with manlike teeth. ¶Eoanthropus dawsoni; Fragments of two skulls, part of lower jaws and teeth were found near Piltdown, England. They are about 375,000 years old. They show a semi-human head, an apelike jaw. ¶Homo Neanderthalensis. Many skeletons have been found in France, Spain and Germany from 40,000 to 25,000 years old. The individuals of that age were about 5 ft. tall, walked with stooping posture, had few tools, used their teeth for many purposes besides eating...
...native haunts is not a monster of ferocity. He is rather a mild-mannered vegetarian wandering around in the highest reaches of the equatorial mountains of Africa. His terrible war cry, so horrendously described by du Chaillu and other passionate French writers was nothing but a rather pitiable semi-human wail. He cannot be made to fight unless cornered. Mr. Akeley, on one of his expeditions took two women and a child up into the gorilla country without danger. And big game hunters have been invading this country and killing the harmless creatures by the score, until now there...