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What IS That Thing?

Check out this old article from the San Francisco Bulletin. Some pioneers found an unidentifiable creature in the petrified forest. The best part:

With blind faith in the preservative power of liquor, they clapped him into a bottle of whisky, which of course, killed him.

Is it a baby dragon? Is it an alien? “Many scientific men” couldn’t figure it out, but I bet you can figure out what its origin is…

Source: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1870/12/25/83481823.pdf#page=1&zoom=auto,-197,1623

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