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...tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...
...much interested in the two maps [illustrating "Fossil Flight Plan"-TIME, July 19]. It is probable that North and South America did slide westward some time in the past, but the suggestion is usually made that the sliding came before the climate was good for birds or fishes. To my way of thinking, a much simpler solution of the migration of birds north and south can be devised than the inheritance of 60 million years...
Seeds of the ancient metasequoia, which previously was known only through fossil remains, have arrived at the Arboretum from China and will be planted immediately to preserve the rare discovery...
Geologists, who sometimes attack their work from strange angles, have now been climbing mountains to make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
...last fortnight Dr. Colbert and his assistant George Whitaker were exploring Arroyo Yeso, a gypsum gulch on Ghost Ranch, near Abiquin, N. Mex. Suddenly Whitaker uttered a cry of joy, rushed to the bank and pointed triumphantly to a small fossil claw. Dr. Colbert had got his coelophysis...