Roy Chapman Andrews, the real Indiana Jones

Redlands Daily Facts | July 9, 2005| | Copyright

On Aug. 9, 1922, one of the expedition drivers found a huge bone in the bottom of a gully. Near it was a partial lower jaw in the teeth "as big as apples." The next day they returned to the gully and excavated hundreds of bone fragments. Examination of the teeth and bones led the expedition's paleontologist to conclude that the beast was a giant hornless rhinoceros, species baluchetherium, that died more than 20 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch.

They collected 365 pieces of skull bone, all from a single specimen. These bones were sent to New York for assembling. It was quite a ...

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