Other / Unknown · Africa · 1920s

AFR-1920ID case-b2252baef3Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Other / Unknown
When: the 1920sto the decade
Where: Africafallback location
Reports: 10 documents1 independent

The account

Walter Winans reports that Carl Hagenbeck told him two of his travelers had seen the brontosaurus in swamps in central Africa on different expeditions.

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Details

Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Africa
mapped to country level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found).
When: the 1920s
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (10 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-b2252baef3

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Source trail (4)

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Image 6 of Eagle River review (Eagle River, Wis.), July 30, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-07-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 6 of The Progress-itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), July 30, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-07-30
Image 8 of The Concordia sentinel (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.), July 31, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-07-31

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Image 3 of The Hays free press (Hays, Kan.), August 5, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-08-05

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