Word: diploglossus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pits came every sort of ice-age animal to fill up Los Angeles museums, from imperial elephants and mastodons to giant sloths. Somewhere along the line, the captain also began collecting Audubons. Meanwhile, his collection of marine specimens (there is an Aganostomus hancocki Seale fish and a Diploglossus hancocki [Slevin] lizard) got so big that in 1938 he decided to start a Foundation for Scientific Research just to house them...
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