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...evolution of man, was no older than the oldest British citizen or the ape. Dismayed anthropologists found that the Piltdown skull was the concotion of the jawbone of a modern ape with the skull of a modern man--the most colossal fraud over to be executed in the fossil world. Insisted dumfounded Hallam L. Movius, associate professor, of Anthropology: "Most people in the field are virtuous, honest...
...race, a fine series of crosses and doublecrosses, is laughable right down to the finish line. All the main parts are played with expert pace and restraint, but the real stars of the show remain the fossil vehicles, as wild a sight on a modern highway as a pterodactyl in a bird bath...
Oakley explained that the basis of calling the skull a fraud was the discovery that the ape-like "Piltdown" jaw is actually that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...
...months Stirton has been poking around in the dry northeastern corner of South Australia, in a place where fossil bones had been reported. Last week, back in Adelaide, he told about a major find: the skeletons of 500 to 1,000 diprotodons, entombed just beneath the desert surface. He brought back one skeleton, the first ever found complete, and parts of two others...
Indiana's Geologist Jesse James Galloway, 70, expert on foraminifera (a group of microfossils) and the first man to give a course in micropaleontology. In his 24 years at Indiana, he taught hundreds of students how to tell a fossil's age, was always so fascinated by his own subject that he once flabbergasted the officials of a busy bank by crawling about on his hands and knees, searching for fossils in the marble wall. Though a tough teacher (during an examination he strolled among his students whistling Have You Forgotten So Soon?), he had an unorthodox contempt...