From the April 28, 1934, issue
By Science News
ARCHANCESTRAL CROCODILE MODELED FOR MUSEUM
Kipling, in one of his happiest tales, long ago gave us an authentic and authoritative account of how the nose of the Elephant’s Child got that way, from poking it too much into other animals’ affairs—specifically into the affair that is the crocodile’s snout. It has, however, remained for a Yankee scientist, Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History, to dig up the bones of the Crocodile’s Ancestor, and by a technique that combines the knowledge of the anatomist and the skill of the sculptor, to reclothe them with the similitude of flesh and make this strange beast live again before our eyes.