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...Erode, Madras, India, 45 students at the London Mission School collapsed after luncheon. Thirty of them and the school cook died in agony; 15 were in critical state. In the soup pot, physicians found a well-cooked venomous lizard...
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Press despatches from Cordova, Alaska, last week contained news which puzzled many a U. S. zoologist and paleontologist. Three weeks ago, it seemed, some one had found a wonderful prehistoric lizard in an ice cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent...
...current report of the Field Museum, Chicago, Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, announced that he had received a rare Texas plated lizard, which he had long wanted. Found in a crate of lettuce by a grocer of Deerfield, Ill., it had come as a stowaway from southern Texas...
Scientists believe that three-eyed reptiles are at present extinct. The stagnodon, a little lizard found on small New Zealand islands appears to be three-eyed, but the middle eye is in reality only vestigial...