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Show fHE SUNDAY HERALD SUNDAY, MARCH 15; 1925. mmemnmia 'HI Movies antfJTw I Expedition to Sooth America Investigating Weird Reports tad prahlatorto Dr, Matthew, flotei Scientist, Disease PessHiUdes of a nrtag plaaonaaaiaa vara atffl eomlac ta froa tao region of Oa of Finding Living Dinoscurt There mi bat. Allbooga tA fiadlac of foa ana of axtlact craatarao vaa kit Males Startling Statements calaf frotaasor Baaa ofcjoct. i a fco-to- tt daaUrad, Jaat-tattQMrviaa, to- - rrofiaaat OaaOl thai "B I aatat a d&aoaaar at aay Mad m put a lariat arouad hit pack aad load aim ta &e aoo." or EXIST? ZHIQS human race as wo know it bow, is certain, to Bsaa party pro from the earth withia a million or m year. eatdad to Bio GaHa Is the startlin statement made by Dr. W. D. coa trott vttanoo it JoorMyaaV Matthew, chief paleontologist of the fossils depart; ment of the American Museum of Natural History. ; Another astounding declaration by the noted scientist there is a perfectly reasonable possibility that b descendants of certain types of prehistoric creatures hitherto belieyed to be extinct may still be living and roam-Inwild Unexplored sections of the globe. t SHE I I 1' ' . a MaaoamtVatarai . . Tork, I I 4lvSv5 t ' I t , " krwattta Ma V m atasBoM(J gTtaataTaa'a - " V,nT aapteaaaa aa a aaaiaaa. aaiati oaaiaatar ttalr. aawnatarta- I c " mi , 3s oaaaar m ; tay Ipfeesjplfjjt fS) akiaf toaataaf aririafeuaauta aurtca. art naritaaat ao taia oat aad aia a ' 1 I I I try la Ifav. ara pi- -w a 1 I .tat at tba axpadV Mat- to Dr. W. r, calaf palawOola. of tao loaaQa da BMat of tha Amort kit apartara. DOES :,v aa aa tka aaraaa la Tfca Lwt WHa .tnaaiH Oy (Ud I to tnai rrofiaaar Waa lltaJBal taalaSlftai V Ttaa - ' yaara 1 . - prm V " -- 1 aaano oa thabanVa af tha Amaiaa. tht , a' StWLfr thing happea la tbans anaA la tha Ttrtt National Mm atoa 'at Ooaaa Doyle's ,"Tha Lost - Weill." tor example, at edventur-a-t of explorers oomea upon party living dlaoeaura la Bouta America. After tba , moat harrowing expert-taee- e tbfly"eaptar on of theae aage awnttert tad take It allva to London, wbart It tacapea, run attack , U;' PloeadUly, bowla ever falM&jlami end enjnihneea, tad la terrorises the city. goaaral ' It la a struct, fantastic Ula that tntrtgaea tne'e lalereat and par bape taxee eat's credulity, tut tact, at has oflea been laid, la aomt-ttea- a that Ictloa. Than leeass.V a greuad far the poaab w 1 .4 bird,' Halt or' rtptna kaowa tokt f aliTt wttala nana memory. little over two yean ago tala creature waj ftrat aald to bo vaV lowing la tat mad of tha Aadeaa Lata ration; then, mora recent. ." It waa reported roaming the " region of Chubnt la tha uaea plared territory of tat I, " J Tat eraatura v x : . , v Faoodl toaUi - prcalatsHa treaturevv? aoormou slae aad Wlty that l t 7 i. hu beta Tarloasly daaorlbad aa a araat rrlffln, a flaat lota, aa aweaomt , it , V- V - f A roxtoataraat - - s -- "V4, "... . - aJtW - -- , tva. fboagn ttt diplodocaa rata to a areator leagta. aavtag a toag. naky aoek Md'a amaHar aaad. Tha racoiiatraoted foaalla of oat feat dlplodocat rttaald thu It U la laagth. I f f ' i a ' mtms ' S AuS isi vat aootwbat akep- explorer ehaaco of larger PO- , fladlag aHrt oat ofttt -But of coaraoi 'dea of dlBoeanr. he qualified, --we cant alwayt fore- . tell what may happen, and we can .Proctor Blggf r Dr. Matthew Ucal at to tho ' Vt V?K y alloaaurva. noaaurua, ehargaa. 1 -- 's blood-thtrat- 1 - & aawalt i4' tw i... h.J 1 .u.ti,. waa almply, a, .t'uT-- .t larger edition of the prmnt day aloth. a matArod aped-aea weighing from Ua to twelre tona The glyptodoata were arma- dlllo-Ukcrtatnrea, with a maaaive ahatt around e"ehort.'611d Kody." The body would bt about tig feet to length plna a talli eight to alne feet In length. An arerage glypto- e Wh would I probably weigh about two tone. Foaalla of the giant tloth have been found In thia country, heel bone of one was fonnd by A, R.' LaDoux, while in twlmmlag at Ung Branch In 1170. and wat presented by htm to the Ameiicaa ne Vi . ... - ' J , . denta and giant, sloths oou'd bt found la. South, America ' "Becauae the Jos'siU' ef IHeaa toaail . Soda, accorllni to Or, ereaturea ' found there Uow ' that; u atthtv. they could not haTt- been. dead tor -rule that la so yery long. There la eridecce n gnmi ol we,tttraa diaap- - ttiat the giant, sloth had actually whoa ask been' dotnestlfAlid by maa. ,4 iraa akaptlcal about tha vbr of extraordinai7freskneet reported axutaoca today ot dlno- - hare been found hear. IxSf Hope aturtypea, Inlet off. the Straits of Magellan) ;. by that, than, "As, to rumors ol Hrmg. dino.j you mem la' tine the human raoa, will saurs, these come out abqut ctery two years. - We're jnst about 'tlaa MkwL aAtvVkTr be . , w. . . for Another now. "This, time come' from the Antarctic, differ-- wafer tat dinosaur could grow a a eoatloaa la ts4 By fat layer' of blubber and a thlrfc torn, but : ' ot look or act or ba the eame aa coat of fur Ditmars, ccrator of Raymond tba New York., Zoological Gardens, pointed, out that should any exto South America bt ft u h,8t6,T ,th W .H w!l! pedition in cepturlnc alfe one of w tod,y the larger species of dinosaur, the centurlea 0. would not be warmly vaa "Since you admit that the human captlre J the Bronx Zoo. cpmedat a iMg-aHoeootiaae btef may "aald he, 'Should th-- e In a of yoart from now, though be a tyrannosiurus, a great terent form, Isn't It possible tten tire thing rearing twenty feet high pat dlno-dothat the descendants of great of agei ago are Mill living today In South America, though in a different form, which may tocount for the atrange descrlptlona gWen tljemT" - our point ia rery well taken," i replied the noted scientist, "Wb.es j f . ao mw. iKo-mai- , 1 J ,.. -- " Ie mo-cesst- " i -f 7 .... A .v (0h ME W 1 i ttreiigth still Inhkblt tha earth. At variety of snake and aa a aayi rata., the1 acienti&e world la saurus. One description outlines seeking conclusive evidence along It as a turtle : with a stsh- - thjit Hoe. The possibility that descendants of the great reptilian dinosaurs of Meestsote and the Jurassic Ages Bttll live ta from time to time girea Impetus by reports from various Isolated sections of ' the world. Theae hare cooieapasinodl-calltrom. such regtons aa Mongolia Africa, and ereo. the frigid toaea. The latest field ot rumora la South' America. I for two years Professor Elmer k Rigga Of the Field Museum. Chl-"tlbaa,' been down In SoutSi' America searching for fossils, and. tfldentalIy. rooVlng7or living dlno-- ' aaura. if any exist He U still - " .Uera. Ot course,, the main purpose of y Profaasor-Rises'expedit- ion ha been to Ond Jasalla. : But at .the tame time he has been investigating the reports of irarelera telling of glimpses they have' had of a ttranga monster,' snlilss any sort of -- or Bus tor lag .tall. Dapper lees, an Immense protruding neck, as loog aa Its body, at the end of which It wage a comparatively small head, principally mouth, well equipped with a double row of ' . The aharply pointed monster was said to be fxtrhaps twenty feet long. It ia hardly atrange that the tevwaffarera who have reported seeing It did not remain long In tta vicinity, and it la perhaps no less strange, that their ' descriptions vary.' , These, ftoriea iaaclnate4 Jrofe sor Rlgga. He fitted out a beaat and toasiJ hunting ipedtt sailed from Buenos Ayrea tor Patagonia oh December M; 1921 Bailing Professor Rlggs called on Professor Clement Onelli. Direcbent-teeth- too-an- d, -- Bo-for- e tor of ta Buenoe-Ayre- vs.. on horseback northward along the coast of the territory ot Santa Crux. In this region they remained '"through thr- - entire southern summer, and then Professor Riggs and his companions moved north,-warand. Into the interior, going even to southern Bolivia, la search of -- flelstoceuaa peel mane - and- - the living dinosaur Itself. At the time s" feasor Rlgga expected to remain In Argentina about a year and a half. Two yeara av passed, and Professor Rlgga la alill there. At bflnlBe wlHi 2oologtci Qarden, and obtained from him Information about tat reported monVl ater Professor OaelU told him that, in apitt of tha failure of a group of Argentina explorera to of Patagonia, and he ia not expected to. .return to , America before aprtng. Whether or not he has come upon the living dinosaur baa not yet teen made known, but from ' , D 1 1 ; ,h ,. i , 1 "It can be tail however, without any breach of confidence,1' declared Dr. Matthew the other day, "that Professor , Rlgga has -- made torn very valuable fossil finds In South America. Aa to the nature of theae finds and tba results of his tnvea-ttgatloa of reports of the existence af a supposedly living dinosaur the publle must wait until Professor Rigga la prepared to make known hit discoveries. It ia. Safe to bay, Museum 1911." of Natural History v aj,-. ta . . ' r Matthew aald some particularly -- Una apectmenf.pf . dinosaur i i .Ail. aiw V had been found in Patagonia quite recently. A somber of these of the brontosaurua type, vie aald, ranged from BO to SO feet la length. Soma y aara ago a. great oollactioa of fossils of the giant ground-aloti and.the toxodont a creature that looked' Uke a rhlnocerons, waa however, that Professor Rigga found tn the caves of aouthern Bra-ti- The elephant guns of Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt. Uewii"8te,"""Lloy and mora recently la another shall have something very Interestaa . Hughea and Bessie Love ara about aa effective ing to submit." part of .Brattt a further collaction 7 Among'tht large'rf dinosaura, ac- ot stmflsr fossils was secured by you put it that way, I can only aay stalked around 'On its iilad lag abd faut6r than any horse, wo would cording to Dr. Matthew, ft la Dr. O. C. Farrlngton for the Field that It ia a possible thing, but so ftaoprobable that it is almost as Im have 6' if troubles keeping his hun; generally the fossils of either the Museum ot Natural Iliatory;-Southbrontosaurua or the diplodooua that era Bolivia, the Turns River region possibility." ger appeased. ITa could 'swallow a do America.-.- ' Tht tn western Brazil; Ecuador, Peru deer at a' gulp... .About tlx might In It "Then It South found yon aay why pef arj ' ; htm one meal." , brottoaaurna is the heavier of tht and .Chill have given up valuable feetly' possj le that living glypto-faiak- e - - ' ' h l, r, m , . aftm&Jtfi ... if I |