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Harvard has another "living fossil" and it's not a member of the faculty. A report published by Harold J. Coolidge, Assistant Curator of Mammals, in the Harvard Museum Monograph today, indicates that the specimen of a wild ox or kouprey presented to the museum last year is an entirely new genus close to the ancestral line of modern domestic cattle...
Theodore E. white, of the Museum staff, will work at the site this winter under a grant from the Milton Fund of Harvard. Several years of excavation will be required to piece together the picture of the fauna as found in the fossil bones...
Shale and sandstone strata bearing dinosaur tracks have been known in Massachusetts' Connecticut Valley region for a long time. The South Hadley bed was found in 1933 by blond, blue-eyed Carlton Nash, who had been fossil-fascinated since childhood. The shale crops out near a wooded, winding road popular with Mount Holyoke College girls and their swains. For six years the brothers kept their secret, then bought two acres from a utility company which owned them. They got to work with broom, sledge and chisel, circulated neat little advertising folders. By last week, nearing the end of their...
...Chapman Andrews is best known as the man who discovered fossil dinosaur eggs in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Before that, no one knew whether dinosaurs laid eggs or bore their young alive. Andrews has done a great deal of other scientific junketing, slaking an insatiable curiosity which he has had ever since he was a Wisconsin boy. Several times he has been on death's brink-once a black boy in Borneo yanked him out of range of a huge python which was about to drop on the explorer from a tree...
Discovered on a Harvard fossil expedition to Brazil, by Liewellyn I. Price and Theodore E. White, Research Assistants, the new species of reptile was named in honor of the late Professor E.P. de Oliveiria, head of the Brazil Geological Survey, who greatly assisted the Harvard scientists in the field. The expedition uncovered a rich new bed of ancient fossils, yielding several hitherto unknown reptile...