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GROUP OF MEN PROVE HISTORY’S WORTH OF EVIDENCE WRONG, FIND PREHISTORIC CREATURES IN SOUTH AMERICA!!!

Ed Malone,

Reporter for Daily Gazette

Our band of 12 men seem to have found a completely different subcategory of animals, some similar and some different from the fossils we’ve uncovered before. The self-proclaimed leader of our pack, Professor George E. Challenger, had been the one that started the whole idea, as he went to South America before. Accompanied by Ed Malone (myself), Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and 9 other servants, we had set off to find dinosaurs and other primitive species. In harsh and uncharted places, our group survived for many weeks, in the name of science.

Their schedule was made like the following: three days up a stream, two days to reach an Indian village, and the remainder to explore and bring back specimen. However, not everything went as planned, and we ran into dangerous ape-men, who were like gorillas but less hairy, pterodactyls, which seemed to go for anything related to meat, and iguanodons, the ferocious carnivores. We
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The plateau at which we stayed at is a massive cylindrical shape, with Central Lake at the center and various forests all around it. We started at Maple White Land, and came down progressively until we reached the Amazon Forest. An excerpt from my log gives a description of this strange and vibrant landform: “The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall”. After a trip through these various places, we returned home safe and

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