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Last week at Manhattan's famed American Museum of Natural History. Alfred and two friends-Joseph Geiler, 16. and Michael Bandrowski, 16-exhibited the fossil of a winged reptile, oldest airborne vertebrate known to man. Siefker's protorosaur, said Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, head of the museum's department of vertebrate paleontology, "proves that vertebrates attempted flight some 10 million years earlier than anyone suspected...
Last summer Alfred began to prowl the quarry with Joe Geiler and Mike Bandrowski, who had joined the project just a few months before. A large area was being leveled for the construction of a supermarket, and Alfred led his small but expert crew to a place where shale lay near the surface. They dug down to the dark rock and brought big slabs to the surface. They found some coelacanth fossils first but ignored them as commonplace. Then they split another slab, and Alfred knew at once that they had come upon something extraordinary. In the shale...
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