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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. 
