Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last week...
Playing no favorites, Poet MacNeice represents the activities of his molelike rubes and his lizard-like slickers as equally unsatisfactory. He conveys the impression, nevertheless, that Something is watching both like a cat. What that Something is his poems fail to signify-except that it is deadly to human moles and lizards. Bagpipe Music gives a crazy rehearsal of things done in town and country, raises echoes that such things will not do. For townees the echo runs...
...cynodonts and dicynodonts are important for evolutionary study, since these families show already early signs of the evolutionary development that led from the lizard-like animal to the true mammal, which dominates the world today...
Many of the fossils brought back from Brazil are of genera never before seen by man. One of these, a delicately boned lizard, about fifteen inches long, belongs to the order of thecodonts, whose evolution developed some of the greatest dinosaures. Another specimen, an oddly crushed reptile skull, is believed to be chasmatosaurid, belonging to a carnivorous alligator type, probably about twelve feet long. Other new animals were found in the cynodont, dicynodont, and rhynchosaur groups...
Illimitable lizard, incommensurable newt...