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...latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world's senior egg is now on exhibition in its Museum of Comparative Zoology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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