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...From four African civet cats, 14 have been shipped off and nine kept for further breeding. The zoo's most expensive inmate, a $12,000 male lowland gorilla, fathered one infant in July, and has impregnated a second female. The most notable success is the whiteeared pheasant, possibly extinct in the wild. The zoo has bred 51 of them and exported ten pairs to seven countries...
...strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant tusk. Bank officials, hearing of the odd discovery, quickly called in an amateur archaeologist, Robert Ferguson, who immediately recognized the find. It was a fossilized fang from a saber-toothed tiger, an extinct, ferocious-looking creature that once stalked wide areas of the Americas...
...around it. The bank's gesture quickly paid dividends. A team of amateur diggers, led by Ferguson and Anthropologist Ronald Spores of Vanderbilt University, found the bulk of the remaining pieces of the tiger's skeleton as well as more fossils, including the bones of several other extinct creatures apparently killed and dragged into the cavern by the tiger: a mastodon, an ancient horse, a long-nosed piglike creature called a peccary and a prehistoric bison. In addition, they discovered four relatively recent human remains-probably Indians of the Woodland Period (1000 B.C.-1500 A.D.). Distinguished...
...assistant navigator, and brought back bird, plant and fish specimens never before seen in the U.S. Among the discoveries of his 61-year career were the skeleton of the New Zealand moa, a flightless bird of centuries ago, and the cahow, a sea bird believed to have been extinct since the 17th century. As bird curator at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, he sailed on more than a dozen ocean expeditions, wrote nearly 600 articles and ten books (among them, Logbook for Grace, Oceanic Birds of South America), had two mountains and several creatures named after...
Christianity became publicly extinct in Japan after 1637. However, the descendants of the Catholic converts kept their faith alive in secret. When the Dutch were later allowed to operate in Japan, representatives of these secret Catholics approached them. Upon learning that the Dutch neither honored the Virgin nor acknowledged the Pope in Rome, contact was dropped. When Japan was once again opened to foreign contact in the 19th century, representatives of the hidden Christians again sought contact with the foreign missionaries. Once Catholic priests were located, a community of secret Catholics numbering in the thousands and centered around Nagasaki revealed...