Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking of the fossil exhibits at Agassiz Museum which he will use to illustrate his talk, Dr. Romer asserts that those of South American animals are the beat in America and those of prehistoric fishes particularly notable...
...inquisitive Professor Alfred Edwards Emerson, University of Chicago zoologist, scornfully denying that he and his family had suffered tropical discomfort. Predictions of insecticide manufacturers that tropical termites will direfully invade the U. S. are absurd, said he, because 1) most of the U. S. is too cold, and 2) fossil termites 30,000,000 years old show close kinship to species now living, so that if these oldtimers could have invaded the U. S., they would have done so long...
Dredging more than two thousand feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a Harvard University expedition has succeeded in taking fossil-bearing rock in place on the cliffs of the North American continental shelf for the first time, and has discovered evidence which upsets existing ideas as to the long geologic period of stability and quiet which was supposed to have continued unbroken since the Palaeozoic age, 160,000,000 years...
Offering an opportunity to four or five students who have already taken Geology 1, a fossil collecting party is being formed by the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The object of the trip is to collect fossil vertebrates in the rich Eocene deposits of southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah...
California. Fossils of two extinct species were found for the first time on the Pacific slope. One, announced by Dr. Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology...