Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are no Shakers at all. A nonprofit corporation made up largely of well-off summer residents of the Berkshires, titled Shaker Community, Inc., has opened Hancock Shaker Village to the public for seven days a week ($1 for adults, 50? for children), thus preserving the fossil of a unique movement in U.S. religious history...
...more likely, Dr. Holdgate believes, that far-southern forms of plant and animal life spread across Antarctica and the chains of islands that fringe it. Today Antarctica is impassable to higher plants or insects, but fossil evidence shows that 10 million years ago, it had a temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone. Plants and insects capable of crossing moderate water gaps could have used Antarctica as a bridge between New Zealand and Australia on one side and South America on the other. Some of the flora and fauna may even have evolved...
Delbert LeRoy True, pride of the anthropology department at the University of California at Los Angeles, is a hard-handed man of 37. Son of a lumberyard foreman in Wilmington, Calif., True as a boy was a fascinated fossil hunter and "hooked on California Indians." But when he graduated from high school in 1941, he had no money for college ("My family has always figured the hell with education"). True worked in a shipyard, served as an aerial-gunnery instructor in World War II, acquired a small avocado ranch in the Pauma Valley. In 1953 some U.C.L.A. anthropologists interviewed local...
...skeleton of the ancient reptile still belongs to Alfred, but it will probably stay at the museum. In return, Alfred, who intends to become a professional paleontologist, has received a reward more welcome than money. Next summer the museum will take him on a fossil-hunting expedition to Colorado...
...Servant. Cullmann approaches the Gospels like a paleontologist reconstructing a human head from the fossil of a jawbone. As U.S. Scholar Maria