Word: fossilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metasequoia--in remote central China. Ever since scientific journalists have squabbled as to whether Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany, emeritus, or Ralph W. Chaney, professor of Paleontology at the University of California, is responsible for sending expeditions to bring back and distribute seeds from this "living fossil...
...Fossil tremauts of the Metasequoia were only discovered in 1940 and later assigned a genus. Yet within a year a single living tree was found in China. Recent studies show that these trees once stretched all over the North temperate zone to as far North as Spitzbergen, an island above Norway...
...Fossil. Few of his contemporaries won his affection, fewer still his awe. President Buchanan he labeled "Old Pennsylvania Fossil." Andrew Jackson, he noted, had done the U.S. "more harm than any man who ever lived in it. unless it may have been Tom Jefferson." Boss Tweed he crowned "His Scoundrelism...
...current Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Anatomist W. E. Le Gros Clark of Oxford adds new details to his theory that fossil primates (Proconsuls) found in Kenya show more manlike than apelike characteristics. They have no "simian shelf" (bony reinforcing) in the lower jaws, and their limbs suggest that they did not swing through the trees. Such ape traits were probably developed by specialization later than Proconsul's time...
...start on the job, Dr. Urey this year went to Egypt, which was covered by the sea during both geological periods. In many parts of Egypt and Israel, the rock layers formed during the transition from the Cretaceous to the Eocene are very easy to identify. They contain few fossil shells, for life was apparently scarce at that time. But Egyptian and Israeli paleontologists have promised to send him suitable specimens from above and below the dividing line. If the climate-change theory is correct, the fossils will show that Cretaceous mollusks lived in warm water and Eocene mollusks...