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...than six feet from fangs to tail, the Nashville cat is one of the largest ever found. It is also remarkably well preserved; 70% of the animal's bones were recovered, most of them clustered together. Most intriguing of all is their age. Carbon 14 dating, arranged by Paleontologist John Guilday of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum, suggests that the remains of the Nashville sabertooth are a mere 9,500 years old. That indicates not only that sabertooths lived several thousand years longer than generally believed, but that they may well have coexisted with-and perhaps were even hunted...
...Method in Theology (1972). A newer name, at least to Northern Hemisphere Christians, is Montevideo's Juan Luis Segundo, whose theology is just beginning to appear in English. The restored society has also produced the other kinds of creative minds that distinguished its earlier eras, including Philosopher-Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
...heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching fish or lizards (the remains of a tiny undigested reptile are preserved inside of it). Although part of its forelimbs are missing, they seem to have been equipped with ducklike webbing. Says Paleontologist Gerard Thomel of Nice University: "Our petite dinosaur could walk and no doubt run, too. But I am pretty sure that it also could swim and even dive...
...thinks that the bones are sufficiently different to indicate that they belong to an entirely new species. As yet, Jensen's discovery has not been confirmed by other specialists, but he thinks that he can provide even more persuasive evidence. By probing further in the Colorado quarry-"a paleontologist's paradise," he says-Jensen hopes eventually to recover enough bones to reconstruct the entire skeleton of the prehistoric monster...
Overcrowding, suggests the paleontologist. Geological signs, he says, show that Southern France was then becoming an increasingly desert-like region. Forced to take shelter in gradually shrinking oases, the big beasts were cramped for living space; such nerve-wracking conditions could have upset their hormone production until their eggs became too thin-shelled for their offspring to survive...