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...couple reportedly removed the teeth and discarded the remainder of the jaw in a pile of manure about 10 miles up Route 133 in Gloucester...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Wanted: 29 Stolen Whale Teeth | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...before the University could retrieve the carcass, a couple from Essex allegedly cut out the whale's jaw with a chain saw and stole 29 teeth...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Wanted: 29 Stolen Whale Teeth | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Judy M. Chupasko, a curatorial assistant in the museum's mammal department, said yesterday that Harvard already has the specimen's skull, jaw, flipper and vertebrae...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Wanted: 29 Stolen Whale Teeth | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...Tuesday, the whale was again spotted off-shore, and its jaw was still intact. The carcass apparently drifted into Essex Bay late Tuesday night. The couple cut the jaw out before dawn on Wednesday...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Wanted: 29 Stolen Whale Teeth | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...scientific name Australopithecus ramidus (ramid means root in the local Afar language). Like Lucy and her clan, known as Australopithecus afarensis, ramidus had teeth with some apelike and some human characteristics. But at least one specimen -- a baby molar still attached to a piece of an immature ramidus jaw -- resembles a chimpanzee tooth more than a molar from any known hominid. "It's obvious that it belongs to an ancestor of afarensis," says Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of the Nature report and a leader of the international team that uncovered the new fossils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Less Missing Link | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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