Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep into the soft ground. Eventually, the lake dried. The mud turned to rock and so, gradually, did her bones. She might have rested there undisturbed forever but for the roaring geologic forces that ripped the earth apart over the next 30,000 centuries, finally thrusting the long-buried fossil bones to the surface -- where American anthropologist Donald Johanson would find them in 1974. Named Lucy, after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, this long-dead primate, half-a-million years older than any known human- related species, revolutionized scientists' understanding of human origins...
...Zoology is a welcoming museum. The entrance features a bright orange temporary exhibit enthusiastically titled, "Everybody Likes Trilobites--The Exhibit." It's a user-friendly exhibit that informs visitors, "Time treated the trilobites pretty well," and draws them further into the museum with a flourish: "This way to more fossil in vertebrates...
...animals steal the show. Roommates Bonnie A. Pelly '96 and Bethany M. Lemann '96 came to the museum for a Biological Sciences 2 lab, and returned to check out the rest of the museum. "I liked the sperm whale's pelvic bones and the big dinosaur fossil. I love evolution. I love dolphins. I love primates," gushed Lemann...
What SMUD is doing parallels what developing countries have been up to for more than a decade. These nations, which cannot afford to build costly nuclear or fossil-fuel plants in rural areas, now buy nearly two-thirds of all solar panels produced in the U.S. "In Mexico there are 28 million people without electricity, and Mexico has the most ambitious solar electrification program in the world," says Sklar. Elsewhere, India and Zimbabwe are using World Bank financing to light up remote areas with solar power; India is installing photovoltaic systems in 38,000 villages, and Zimbabwe is bringing...
Shattered legs won't keep the famed fossil hunter down...