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Word: kakabekia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Barghoorn and Tyler selected 800 promising samples and ground them to paper thinness. Studied under a microscope, they showed a great variety of organisms. Few of them resemble anything that still lives today, and their discoverers gave them such fanciful scientific names as Eoastrion (little dawn star), Kakabekia (after a waterfall in Ontario) and Eosphaera (dawn sphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: Earliest Life | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

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