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...Vanishing Fossil...
...phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete with two insulators, an untitled color print of a steak platter and half the braincase of a fossil herring...
Every so often, without swinging a pick or lifting a shovel, professional diggers discover scientific treasures. Browsing through the modest collections of amateur "rock hounds," they have found many a rare fossil, often misclassified and almost as obscure as if it were still buried in prehistoric shale. Last winter, hoping for just such a find, veteran Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson took time out from a lecture tour to visit the private museum of Alonzo Wesley Hancock, a retired Oregon postman...
Home in Manhattan, where he is curator of fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Simpson studied photographs of Hancock's find. Last week he announced that his hunch was correct. The huge jawbone surely belonged to a Miomastodon. Next summer Hancock hopes to go back to the barren sagebrush country of eastern Oregon and have another look at his diggings. If his luck holds, the bone detectives may be able to rebuild the beast's entire body...
...Fossil tremauts of the Metasequoia were only discovered in 1940 and later assigned a genus. Yet within a year a single living tree was found in China. Recent studies show that these trees once stretched all over the North temperate zone to as far North as Spitzbergen, an island above Norway...