Word: skeleton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down to the dark rock and brought big slabs to the surface. They found some coelacanth fossils first but ignored them as commonplace. Then they split another slab, and Alfred knew at once that they had come upon something extraordinary. In the shale was the 7½in. skeleton of a delicate creature that looked like a cross between a lizard and a monstrous dragonfly. The boys started to clean the fossil but had sense enough to stop before they did damage. After keeping it for a while, Alfred dutifully brought his find to the museum...
...Presumably its way of life was to climb trees and launch itself into gliding flight when it wanted to move to another tree or when danger threatened. On one of these glides it must have landed in the lake where its flesh was eaten by fish and its sunken skeleton was covered slowly with silt...
...skeleton of the ancient reptile still belongs to Alfred, but it will probably stay at the museum. In return, Alfred, who intends to become a professional paleontologist, has received a reward more welcome than money. Next summer the museum will take him on a fossil-hunting expedition to Colorado...
...complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic detection...
...more mechanically minded, do-it-yourself dinosaur construction kits are on sale. These kits provide a mass of miniature plastic Tyrannosaurus Rex bones from which the prospective paleontologist can construct his own small scale dinosaur skeleton...