Word: molluscs
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...there is a humorous side to the museum as well. At Christmastime, a santa's cap adorned the forty-two-foot-long, 135-million-year-old Kronosaurus queenslandicus. The door of the Mollusc Department sports a red-construction paper and lace doily valentine with decorated with pearly shells. The case of an ancient pachyderm is entitled, "Teleoceras--A Preposterous Rhinocerous...
...great conspiracy involving the water supply of thirsty Los Angeles--rendered here with delicate eye and choice of color filters. Enter Faye Dunaway, older than you remember her, as the real wife of the man, soon murdered, her thick dark lipstick granting her what Joyce somewhere calls red mollusc lips...
After several years of abounding faith in the authenticity of TIME, I find that I have been duped, taken in, crossed up, and otherwise misled. I read with great interest an article concerning the genus bivalve mollusc, or clam, in your Aug. 20 issue, whereby it would appear some enterprising character named Higgins had revolutionized the time-tested method of clam-digging through the use of a plumber's helper, slush pump, or what have...
Always willing to try something new, I purchased one of the above-mentioned tools and, with a light heart, set out to show the local clamdiggers how we moderns extract the lowly mollusc from his lair...
...admit he was right. His good friend, Caltech's famed Thomas Hunt Morgan, once an extreme proponent of the mutation theory, now admits that evolution cannot work without natural selection. But Conklin has had to take cracks in return from his friend Morgan. Remembering Conklin's famous mollusc studies, when the first Conklin daughter was born, Dr. Morgan suggested naming her Crepidula...