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Near Scenic, S. D., a Harvard field party uncovered fossil crocodiles of the Oligocene period (two million years ago, when crocodiles were among the highest forms of animal life). Of much the same structure as crocodiles today, these measured...
Last year in Arizona, a scientific expedition found some remarkable rock pictures, supposedly made by prehistoric man. The most interesting picture, scientifically, is one that resembles an ibex, an antelope like creature which hitherto has not been found in this country, even in fossil form...
...cable-layers, some scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), that it was split in two volcanically. the eastern half submerging, peaks of the western half (Antilia) remaining today as the Antilles (West Indies). Alleged cranial similarities between natives of Venezuela and Canary Islanders, also between fossil flors and fauna of France and the U.S., constitute other "evidence...
...muscles that make hair stand on end, the appendix (which in herbivorous animals is important in digestion), the pineal gland in the top of the head where the first amphibians had an eye (probably as a lookout when they" were half buried in the mud). 3) Paleontology (the fossil record). This is the least complete evidence in man's evolution-much less complete than in some other animals, such as the horse. But man's development has been rapid and recent compared to the millions of years it has taken other animals to advance. He lived mostly...
Bananas. Early in their session, the scientists were invited to assign the banana to its original home. It had long been agreed that southeastern Asia deserved the honor. Fossil seeds (probably Oligocene) from Colombia, however, argued that the banana is essentially an American fruit-Dr. Edward W. Berry, Johns Hopkins...