From the September 12, 1931 issue

ELEPHANTS JAWBONE SHOWS LIKENESS TO SCOOP SHOVEL

Where the idea of the present-day scoop shovel came from is suggested in the illustration on the cover of this weeks Science News Letter. When President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History received the weird lower jawbone of an ancient Asian elephant, he was struck by its shape and had it photographed with a scoop shovel of the same width.