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...fossil skeleton of a marine reptile thought to be the largest that ever lived is being prepared for display at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

First Englishman. In 1935 another amateur digger, London Dentist Alvan T. Marston, found a fossil bone 24 ft. below the surface in Swanscombe's Barnfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fire? | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...Fossil examples and old, now unusable specimens previously showed the existence of the discovered ant, but scientists knew practically nothing about its habits or evolutionary status. "Now its importance has been confirmed," Wilson said, "and we have studied it in virtually all possible aspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Scientists Find Key Link in Ant Evolution | 3/20/1956 | See Source »

Contrary to current newspaper reports, a new identification of a 10,000,000-year-old fossil as "humanoid" does not refute Darwin's theory of evolution, two University faculty members claimed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Darwin Theory Still Intact, Two Anthropologists Affirm | 3/13/1956 | See Source »

...political monarch: "I don't think the people of Indiana are taking it seriously." In 1956, Senator Jenner is the symbol of a brand of Republicanism that has quietly, gradually, relentlessly been made obsolete by the Eisenhower Administration. He has been transformed from a reactionary into a fossil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Formation of a Fossil | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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