Continuing the Story of Roy Chapman Andrews

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Editor's note: This is the second of a four-part series about Roy Chapman Andrews and his search for fossils in the Gobi Desert in the 1920s. This week's column continues the story of the discovery of a fossil baluchetherium found standing upright.

Some of the bones were larger than a man's body the upper foreleg bone being four feet long. A man's forearm bone would look like a mere sliver next to it.

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Continuing the Story of Roy Chapman Andrews

When the expedition finds were later completely assembled in New York, the Beast of Baluchistan was ascertained to be the largest land mammal known to date. From nose to tail it measure...

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