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...much happens in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, population 1800. Until last summer, that is, when two American paleontologists decided to poke around...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Dinosaur Digger Unearths `Fossilgate' | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

...Parrsboro's Mayor Stanford L. Blenkhorn also displayed little anxiety. "I do not think there was controversy," he said. "The only thing that we were concerned about was whether once they finished studying [the fossils] we will get them back. We had a few public meetings concerning the find...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Dinosaur Digger Unearths `Fossilgate' | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

...tides at the closed end of the Bay of Fundy are the highest in the world, rising and falling more than 50 feet every day. For the two fossil hunters clambering over the bordering cliffs near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, last summer, that presented a special problem. Timing their forays with the mighty ebb and flow, they often found themselves on isolated cliff faces, cut off by the surging water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Rosetta Stone of Evolution | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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