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...thought he was pretty old. But Geology told him that man had been living on the earth for 200,000 years. That was just a drop in the bucket. The oldest dinosaur egg, in the University Museum, is about 200,000,000 years old. And even this figure cannot compare with the age of the earth, which is probably in the neighborhood of 2,000,000,000 years...
...ingenious Roaches put fur coats on a pair of old Los Angeles elephants, Queenie and Sally, to simulate mammoths. A cow was similarly bewigged to make an aurochs. Dinosaurs used in the picture are four-foot-long South American tejus blown up by trick camera work to Mesozoic dimensions. Victor in the dinosaur battle is a baby alligator with a fin dubbed in his back...
...ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last week Physicist Alexander Goetz of Caltech described experiments showing that under favorable circumstances just one silver atom will kill a cell - a feat roughly comparable to the killing of a dinosaur by a gnat...
...Sterren Mountains, snow-capped backbone of Netherlands New Guinea, is a triangular-shaped, 40-acre swamp with no visible outlet. On hands and knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly...
...adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook's 'jungle Ways...