Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose skeletons have never been found, but whose tools have turned up in abundance. "Folsom points" are weapons shaped like spearheads, with shallow grooves flaked out on each side. First Folsom find was made near Folsom, N. M., in 1926. The weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed in the ground, summoned anthropologists to come and look. They did, and this...
...should like very much to learn whether any particular species of fish or other animals are made extinct and whether any species increase ; also whether scavengers - sharks, gulls, or any species not now considered to be common scavengers-become more numerous in waters about the British Isles...
...even if Astronomer Slipher is right and the "canals" are real canals, the beings who built them may have become extinct, in the planet's thinning atmosphere and dwindling water supply, millions of years...
Cheerful note: Homo sapiens, practically as he stands, may beat the average because the vast army of extinct mammals had no control over their environment, whereas modern man is controlling his environment more & more all the time...