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Word: snaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Eyes. Zoologist Gordon Lynn Walls, Wayne University College of Medicine : "The snakes are known to have originated from the lizards in a relatively recent geological period, but despite the closeness of relationship, the eyes of snakes differ so much in structure from those of lizards (including modern legless ones) that no one would suspect, from the eyes alone, that a snake is any more closely related to a lizard than a cat is to a frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pops | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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