To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cuiva Daty News"
Sim—I have read with the great sot pleasure the announcement he American Third Asiatic Ex-unearthed "te. in Mongolis Chupman Andi leagues a) ad Mongolia spersal centre of ani Burope and America", a that the Tienshan Lun mountains is the Cradle of hast of ts Kind. they Thal" foun here foucil hoven were taterlee ied! layer om layer. In ase sen, 27 -akulle wore exposed.
He" "CThe Tealles are mine) The sudden disappearance of Nese animals, ete, together with the big mammals such as the itanothere, an animal about the ize of our elephant, is proof that ney were all suddenly drowned, amped together and deposited at his spot by the flood-waters of the ial wave, which flooded the whole 1 the Asiatic continent.
The expedition also found dino snur eggs of different sizes "Heavy rains had exposed a tot are eggs and 40 new ones were and, several being of a different we from previous finds. These yus are of the genu "Protocerutops, stich is the ancestor of the great pedes found in Ameriea"—aid waaces of the great group animals known as the cholic-otheres, rich were giraffe-like creatures vith claws instead of hoofs." (The Jtalies are mine)
T cannot believe that these eggs! re moray eggs over 10,000,000 years old, or that "givaffo-like creatures with claws cots" ever existed, my humble opinion thes: eves #20 "claws" "must have belonged Antediluvian crocodiles or mons-turtles,.and my th is supported iby Chinese The "Historical Record" (SsudMa Chien—born B, C. 145)! solve much that is, at present, dark "P&¢¢ and obscure.
Tam, ete, Prof. H.P. Osborn, Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews and other sei-!
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