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...place of fossils." It is the complete fossilized skeleton of a grown man lying on his right side, with his knees drawn up to his chin and his arms folded. Professor Reck found it high up the side of a gorge where he had found the fossilized bones of extinct animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oldest Man? | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...over a month, China's antiquated Woosung Forts (16 miles from Shanghai) became one day last week the target for nine Japanese warships, scores of Japanese field pieces and dozens of Japanese bombing planes. A continuous bombardment and bombing was kept up until all Chinese holding the forts were extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Complete Prostration | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...stupid, foolish). It was larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very few of its feathers. But enough pictures and written descriptions existed to satisfy bookish students of natural history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Zoophiles Flayed | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...poisonous than the venom of the same kind of snakes in another locality. Stopping over at Havana he learned from one of his young animal gatherers that a few solenodons (molelike animals the size of small opossums) still exist along Cuba's southern shore. Mammalogists have feared the solenodon extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: One Month for Ducking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...foxier than famed Br'er Fox in the Uncle Remus tales (Author Joel Chandler Harris), TIME terms him "Br'er Briand." French readers may not know that "Br'er" is the negro dialect contraction of "Brother," that its playful application to a foxy statesman is not extinct in U. S. political usage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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