Word: fossilized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) below the sand. "Getting at this water," says Egyptian Geologist Rushdi Said, "will make it possible for man to again live in the desert." But only for a while. Filled at the rate of only millimeters a year, these reservoirs of fossil waters are replenished so slowly that for all practical purposes their contents are finite. Though they may yield water for centuries, all will eventually...
Leakey, director of the National Museum of Kenya, has changed the theory of human evolution by discovering a series of human fossil skulls stretching back three million years, Alan C. Walker, professor of Anthropology, said yesterday...
Leakey's lecture will review the last nine years of his work searching for the fossil remains of the earliest humans at the Kenyan site of Lake Turkana...
...those Nat Sci 10 fanatics who need to bone-up on antiquity, March is fossil month at the museum, and each week over 150 children tour the exhibit which is designed to introduce modern city dwellers to the wonders of fossildom...
After making plaster casts and puttering about the dig site, sightseers get a look at some of Harvard's more famous fossils including coelcanph, a "living fossil" (it survives today) and is a special attraction at the museum. Coelacanph is an example of a prehistoric fish which made the transition from water to air respiration. Harvard acquired its bones some 20 years...