Roy Chapman Andrews
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Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically distu
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Roy Chapman Andrews, 1913
Time cover, 29 October 1923
Mrs. Yvette Borup Andrews, first wife of Roy Chapman Andrews, feeding Tibetan Bear cub in 1917
Andrewsarchus
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Andrewsarchus, meaning "Andrews' ruler", is an extinct genus of artiodactyl that lived during the Middle Eocene in what is now China. The genus was first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924 wi
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…then named "Baluchitherium"), a gigantic hornless rhinocerotoid, which was sent back to the museum, arriving on December 19. The fossil species Andrewsarchus was named after him. Andrews, along with Henry Fairfield Osborn, was a proponent of the Out of Asia theory of humanity's origins and led several…
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Illustrated holotype skull of A. mongoliensis
Holotype skull cast of A. mongoliensis as seen from below
Skull of Andrewsarchus compared to those of Mesonyx, an Alaskan brown bear and a wolf