Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1913 — MAMMOTH IS FOUND IN ICE [ARTICLE]

MAMMOTH IS FOUND IN ICE

Finest Specimen of Its Kind That Was Ever Discovered Now in Paris Museum. Paris. —Count Stenboch Fermor of the Island of Great Lyakersky, New Siberia, has presented to the natural hißtory museum in Paris what Is considered to be the finest specimen of a mammoth yet found. The gift is especially interesting because the animal had not finished digesting his last meal at the moment of his death, countless centuries ago. Thus the savants are for the first time able to study accurately the nature of the flora of the far distant epoch; they have simply to examine the contents of the mammoth's stomach. He was found in an absolutely complete condition in a strata of ice. The skin, which is without a scratch, is covered with reddish hair, thick and soft to the touch as that of a lap dog. The work of digging out the monster from his primeval cold storage and bringing him to Paris was one of extreme difficulty. The body was cut carefully into pieces, each one labeled, and then carried 1,800 miles to a railway line on dog sledges. The museum has come into possession of the skeleton of an enormous dlnosauruß found near Majunga, on the west coast of Madagascar, by the explorer Perrier de la Batle. Some Idea of the dimensions of this monster may be gained from the fact that a strong man can barely lift one section of the* vertebrae. Although only partially disinterred, the natural history experts of the museum estimate from measurements of the parts they already have that this dtnosaurian considerably exceeds in slse the diplodocus, a plaster cast of which Mr. Carnegie gave the museum. Another acquisition is the skeleton of one of the Cbulous birds known to palaeontolosts as apiornls, which stood 18 feet tall. -