A week ago, TIME summarized recent archeological findings in Asia, Africa, Europe. Herewith is given a chronicle of latest diggings in the Americas.
South America. A rich deposit of dinosaur fossils was discovered along the Rio Chico in the Chubut Territory of Patagonia, by a party from the Field Museum, Chicago, under Professor Elmer S. Riggs.
Professor Oliver Farrington, also of the Field Museum, found fossilized bones of a fantastic toadlike creature, probably the extinct megatherium, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The animal when alive weighed 500 pounds, was twelve feet long and...
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