Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-07-30 | Page 21 | Remains of Giant Kangaroos Found in Australian Caves

Remains of Giant Kangaroos Found in Australian Caves By A A. A W W. V. V KING United Pr Press ss Staff Correspondent SYDNEY July 30 Fossil Fossil re remain remains remains re- re mains main of giant kangaroos kangaroos which on being s set t up are computed to have been twelve feet In height have been discovered in limestone caves In the southwestern southwest rn part of Vic Vic- Victoria toria VIC VIC-j A still more Interesting discovery in the same sam caves was of oC a flint implement shaped rude rudely y by hands that were stilled many thousands of years ago The flint has been examined by competent Melbourne archeologists and other scientists who believe that It Is at least years old They are almost certain that the giant kangaroos and the wield wielder r of oC the flint implement were contemporary contempo contempo- The flint lint fits fairly well the description of the hellean type of ot instrument the oldest known Implements implements implements Im im- im- im that are aie certainly the work of or man It Is h held Jd not to be bethe bethe bethe the work of even the oldest of Australia's Australia's Australla's Aus Aus- present race of aborigines The discovery of the prehistoric skull at Cohuna a few months ago this latest discovery and other facts gleaned by geologists and philologists all point to th the minds of scientists to one general conclusion sion that sion-that that Australia shares In the childhood of m man man n. n A wave of f enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- Is beginning to sweep over students to Investigate whether this country and not Asia as is g generally gener generally gener- gener ner- ner ally accepted is the cradle of nian