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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
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KHSpKjSSB which gives tlie lie to the
time-worn saying that
ii# there is nothing new
under the sun. For tills one egg is
the egg of a dinosaur. And thaf's
something new, inasmuch as civilized
tnan never saw one before.
And tills dinosaur’s egg. instead of
being graded extra, or fresli first, or
ordinary first, or*even dirty, is guar
anteed to lie at least 10,000,000 years
old. Incidentally, it’s a hot-storage
egg, not cold-storage. Of course dated
eggs are nothing new, but here's one
with the Averse English on it. And
ttint’s new.
And tliis egg. though fossilized and
solid rock, is cherished as a nest egg—
which again is something new.
Moreover, you may have to pay con
siderably more than $5,000 for this one
egg. The chap who wants it most and
has tin' longest purse is the fellow who
is most apt to get it. And then lie'll
have something new.
In brief, tills fossil dinosaur’s egg
was brought to America, with others,
from Mongolia by the Third Asiatic
expedition. It Is for sale at an upset
price of $5,000, the form
the nest egg of a fund to finance a
fourth expedition, planned in the hope
of finding the fossil remains of the
very earliest man.
The leader of this Third Asiatic ex
pedition was Prof. Hoy Chapman An
drews, curator-ill-chief of the division
of exploration and research of tlie
American Museum of Natural History,
who on two previous expeditions to
Mongolia had made Important discov
eries. It was financed by the museum,
the American Asiatic association and
Asia Magazine.
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Its objective wns a depression in the
debt desert of Mongolia, a thousand
i>'. i I os or more front Pekin and about
thirty miles from the Altai mountains.
Hero is a hole of a dozen miles or so
ncross in a smooth plain, its edges a
vast complex of "had lands.” It was
reached last July by a -100-mile jour
ney by motorcar across a desert, sup
plies being carried by camels. Profes
sor Andrews writes tints in part in
Asia Magazine of the discovery of the
eggs:
“Our real thrill came on the second
day, when George Olson reported at
tithn that he was sure he had found
fossil eggs. We Joked him a good deal,
hut nevertheless all of us were curious
enough to walk down with him after
luncheon. Then our indifference sud
denly evaporated; for we realized that
we were looking at the first dinosaur
eggs ever seen by a human being.
That they must be those of a dino
saur we felt certain. True enough, it
never was known before that dino
saurs did lay eggs, but, since most
modern reptiles are oviparous, it was
o nsidered probable that their ancient
ancestors followed this method of re*
production. Nevertheless, although
hundreds of skulls and skeletons of
din >saurs had been discovered In varl
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egg been brought to light.
“These eggs coukl not he those of |
a bird. No birds are known from tlie
Lower Cretaceous geological horizon
in which tlie eggs were found, and
all the Jurassic and Upper Cretaceous
birds were much too small to have
laid eggs of this size. The elongate
shape of the eggs is distinctly reptil
ian. A bird’s egg usually is much
larger at one end than at the other,
because it is deposited in a nest, from
which it might roll out unless it re
volved on its point. Reptile eggs,
which often are buried in the earth
or sand, usually are elongate and simi
lar in shape to the specimens that we
found. These eggs were in a great
deposit full of dinosaur skeletons and
containing, so far as we coaid discover,
no remains of other animals or of
1)1 rds.
“Three of tlie eggs lay in a cluster
and evidently were in the exact spot
where they had been deposited by tlie
dinosaur. Tlie broken shells of sev
eral others were partially imbedded in
.the rock. Just under a low sand
stone shelf, beside ■ which they were
lying, we could see the projecting ends
Of two others. While all tlie members
of the expedition were on their hands
and knees about those ten-million-year
old eggs, George Otsen began to scrape
J away tlie loose rock on the summit of
1 tlie shelf, and to our amazement he
| uncovered the skeleton of a small dino
-1 saur, lying eight or ten inches above
tlie eggs. Was it tlie reptile that had
laid the eggs, or was it a predatory
dinosaur that had come to feed upon
them?
"The preservation is beautiful.
Some of the eggs have been crushed,
but the pebbled surface of the shells
is as perfect as if the eggs had been
laid yesterday instead of ten million
years ago. The shells are about one
sixteenth of an inch thick, and prob
ably were hard and not membranous.
Fine sand lias filtered through breaks,
and the interior of all the eggs is
solid sandstone. In the photographs
the bits of broken shell partially Im
bedded In the rook are plainly to be
seen, and It needs no stretch of imagi
nation to realize that the objects pic
tured are really eggs.
“A few days after the first discovery
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fivi tys were found m si cluster.
Albert Johnson also obtained a group
of nine. Altogether twenty-five eggs
were taken out. Some of them, as in
the case of the original group, were
lying upon the surface of the ground,
exposed by the erosion that had worn
away the sandstone in which they
were imbedded; others were inclosed
in the rock, with only the ends in
sight. The eggs in Johnson’s clutch
were considerably smaller than the
original lot and were unbroken. They
may have been laid by a ‘pullet’ dino
saur, and the large ones by a full
grown ‘hen.’ Or they may lie the eggs
of an Entirely different species.
“Most interesting of all was the fact
that in several of the eggs that had
been broken in half we could plainly
detect the 'delicate bone of tlte em
bryonic’dinosaurs. Never . before in
the history of science has ‘ft lieeil -pos
sible to study paleocnilyy.plogy! Not
only- did we discover tlie 'eggs, hut we
obtained during our five weeks in tills
locality a 'complete development series
of ’Protoceratops. Baby dinosaurs,
which probably had been hatched only
a few’ weeks, and others in all stages,
of growth up to the adults’ten .feet
long, with completely developed frills
and incipient horns, were added to our
collection. When these are placed in
series, from the eggs to the great trl
ceratops that has just been mounted
in the American Museum of Natural
History, it will be an amazing, exhibi
tion of reptilian evolution. No other
spot on eartli lias yielded such a quan
tity of specimens and such uniquema
terial as this sandy basin in the center
of the Gobi desert. . . . From that
one locality our collection numbered
Sixty cases of fossils, weighing five
tons. It included seventy skulls, four
teen skeletons and twenty-five of the
first dinosaur eggs ever seen by human
eyes.”
Interesting as is this find -of dino
saur’s eggs, the larger aspect of the
expedition is more important. It has
located in the Chngan Nor region geo
logical strata that may contain the re
mains of primitive man and there the
work of the fourth expedition will be
concentrated.
The work already done proves that
while Europe and America were conti
nents at sea-level ami practically
awash, while the Himalayas had not
yet appeared, Mongolia was a fertile,
lifted plain, the animal “Garden of
Eden.” it is hoped to prove that it
was also the human “Garden of Eden.”
The expedition has not yet carefully
examined the geological strata that
may contain the remains of primitive
man. President Henry Fairfield Os
borne of the American Museum of Nat
ural History believes that the origin
of man and of the higher apes was in
central Asia. The fossil-beds already
partly explored are too old to contain
the remains of man. But the Chagau
Nor beds are of the right period, as
they belong to the latter part of the
Age of Mammals. Professor Osborne
is inclined to think that man's ancestry
will he found to extend far into the
past. The age of the Java ape-man
lir|f been estimated at 500,tXHl years,
but he thinks it will not be surpris
ing if the first human types are dis
covered in the early Pliocene. In this
ease a conservative estimate of man's
beginning would be well over a million
years. Anyway, the same good luck
that brought about the discovery of
the dinosaur’s eggs may bring back
ti e fossil remains cf the primitive
man whose descendants crossed the
land-bridge to America and also mi
grated to Europe, India and Africa.
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