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Show ENTIRE SKELETON Of PREHISTORIC ' MlttJM IT IS ESTIMATED TO BE THREE MILLION YEARS OLD. Speolmen Which Is Well Preserved, Was Obtained Near Lance-. Creek, In Wyoming. New York, March 9. A complete skeleton of a prehistoric duck, estimated esti-mated by Dr. H. C. Dumpus, of tho American Museum of Natural history, to be three million years old, has Just been acquired by the museum. Tho specimen is so well preserved that the greater part of the skin of the head, body and legs may be seen. It was found near Lanco Creek, Wyoming. Wyom-ing. "Mummies of Egypt three or four thousand years old," said Dr. DumpuH, yesterday, "are considered to be re-, spectablo antiquity, and still more valuable val-uable are the mammoths found burled in the frozen tundras of Siberia and Alaska, but even the mammoths, lens of thousands of jears old, nro only creatures of yesterday compared with the antiquity of thij dinosaur mummy. |