Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white wolves from the islands north of Canada. But he was looking for whatever he could find. From the first summer's work he took back to Copenhagen news of a coal deposit containing 50,000 tons, "superior to English coal;" after the second, he had quantities of fossil stegocephali, four-legged amphibians presumed to be evolutionary links between fish and reptiles...
Died, R. E. A. C. Paley,* 25, called by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was researching, "the greatest mathematician in England and one of the greatest in the world"; when an avalanche started by his skis, swept him down Fossil Mountain near Banff, Alberta...
...quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted digging sites with field glasses. Having discovered a fossil, the diggers used whisk brooms and needles to disengage the item from its matrix. Dr. Andrews was usually chased away from a find. Impetuous, he was apt to use a pickaxe...
Most marvelous results of the ten years digging were dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria, and rats which lived with dinosaurs. In 1900 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist, predicted the finding of great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test...
Elected. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davidson, president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History to succeed famed Fossil Man Henry Fairfield Osborn...