Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saddle is over in the corner, next to a statue of a samurai warrior. Meditating Buddhas sit on top of cabinets filled with spears and mandolins. Wilcox opens a drawer full of shrunken heads, some human, some sloth, some monkey. He holds up an apple-size human specimen and strokes the long black hair. "See how soft the hair is?" he marvels. "They removed the skull and then they shrank the head slowly, using smoke and heat, all the while pouring in hot sand to keep the shape...
...Normally, one would want a photograph, specimen or more than one observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...
...Harvard professor of Biology announced last week that an expedition he led during the summer had found the fossil remains of what is now thought to be the oldest mammal specimen in North America, Farish A. Jenkins Jr., who is also curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said the jaw-bone fossil belongs to a mouse-sized creature that lived about 180 million years ago. "This is the most exciting find of my career because it stimulates our research of the earliest stages of mammalian history," Jenkins said in announcing the discovery...
...time you're out there digging and you don't see anything," Schaff said. "But this specimen was so well preserved that you looked down and it was readily observable that it was a mammal...
During a 1974 expedition to the Badlands of Montana, Jenkins discovered a nearly complete fossil skeleton then believed to be the oldest mammal specimen in North America...