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Word: cryptochitons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a marine biologist would have found the shell exciting. Hubbs knew that cryptochitons do not live, at present, south of Santa Barbara, 300 miles to the north. He deduced that the water off Lower California (and presumably the climate) must have been considerably colder when the prehistoric Indians ate that cryptochiton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossil Climate | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...back as 2000 B.C. Five years ago, studying water temperatures off Lower California, he camped at Santo Tomas, and with a true scientist's curiosity about things that did not directly concern him, he dug into an ancient Indian camp site and turned up the shell of a cryptochiton, a large, limpet-like mollusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossil Climate | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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