io 4 EXTINCT MONSTERS 



True Salamanders are known in a fossil state. There is the 

 famous Andrias Scheuchzeri, about three feet long, found in 1725, 

 and described by Scheuchzer as the skeleton of a man. He 

 called it Homo Diluvii Testis, or, "the man who witnessed the 

 Deluge." Cuvier, in 1811, announced its true nature. 



