Other / Unknown · Africa · 1914

AFR-1914ID case-bc8e8c0f9dFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

The account

Walter Winans reports that Carl Hagenbeck told him two travelers had seen the brontosaurus in swamps in central Africa.

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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: 1914
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-bc8e8c0f9d

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Down the rabbit hole → 10 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

Image 3 of The Hays free press (Hays, Kan.), August 5, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-08-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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