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Word: jeffersoni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jefferson's Big Lion | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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