Westminster Gazette, 13 Feb 1924

IN search of the Dinosaur

Expedition to leave for Africa

Important discoveries are anticipated from an African Expedition which will leave the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, shortly, in search of the fossil remains of the dinosaur, a giant prehistoric animal, and human fossils, which may possibly be from half a million to a million years old.

The expedition will be led by Mr WE Cutler, of the University of Manitoba, who arrived in London yesterday.

In conversation with the Westminster Gazette yesterday, Mr Cutler explained that the dinosaur relics were unearthed by the Germans in what was then German East Africa, at a spot in Tendagaru, Taganyika Territory.

“The skeletons are of enormous size,” he said. “These reptiles were about 22 ft high and from 60 to 80 feet long, and it has been stated that the African specimens were even larger. They flourished from eight to ten million years ago.”