Show Tusked Shovel-Tusked Elephants Used Big Bg Jaws as Dredge Nature never made any real me me- mechanical mechanical except Indirect Indirect- Indirectly ly through her agent man but OOOO- OOOO years ago before the Gobi desert had reached Its present barrenness and before man had put In his appearance on earth she had hind a creation far tar more remarkable It was an animated dredge dredge dredge-a a great elephant whose tusks had taken the form of ot shovels extend extend- extending extendIng ing from a n scoop-like scoop lower Jaw These mastodons dredged dredge the muddy bottoms of ot prehistoric swamps for tor water lilies and other swamp growths which formed their food It has been sev sev- several severa eral era years since their fossils were first discovered In the Gobi desert but In In- Interest Interest interest terest has reverted to them through the discovery and Identification of ot plant fossils which prove that swamps existed In the Gobi Gob during their time timea timen time time- a n fact previously e p doubted and which doubt raised q l question as to these animals' animals food tood and the purpose of ot their shovel tusks This doubt however Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now cleared Other discoveries have shown that these long extinct elephants also lived In America and dredged ed the swamps of or California Nebraska and Kansas Pathfinder Magazine Spider and Start Stars Spiders' Spiders webs have many man uses With With- Without Without out them astronomers would find It harder to make accurate observations The eye pieces of ot their telescopes are marked Into sections by very floe fine lines which are really pieces of or web held hel In place by spots of ot varnish Webs are used because It is Impossible to have havo finer as ns well weB as equally distinct lines Unes by any other method There are other uses too for webs An Instrument maker In York employs a n man specially to o collect spiders ers and webs Only a special kind of ot spider Is caught tho the which Is usually found on gorse orse bushes and has a cross crosson crosson on Its Hs back The spiders are ore made to wind their webs on special forks each Insect winding about 40 feet teet before tho the supply gives out These webs are used In the manufacture of ot the most delicate types of ot scientific Instruments Tit Bits Magazine |