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SCHEVILL FINDS LARGEST, MOST COMPLETE PLESIOSAUR

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Among the eight tons of findings which W. E. Schevill '27, assistant curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has brought back with him from Australia, there has been discovered the largest and most nearly perfect specimen of a plesiosaur ever found in Australia. It is about two-thirds complete, and so makes possible for the first time an accurate reconstruction of the giant marine reptile of 120,000,000 years ago.

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