Word: furless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak to stand or even crawl. The sight was a shocker in itself, but the real shocker came with identification. The pathetic little creature...
...measuring the percentage of oxygen 18 in fossils, Urey showed that the seas around Britain, now cold, could have been as warm in Cretaceous times as tropical seas are today. This indicates that the whole earth was warm at that time, and therefore fine for furless, cold-blooded dinosaurs. Urey's next job will be to measure the temperature of the Eocene period that followed the Cretaceous...