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Darrah made his identification by a new process he has perfected, and through which it is possible to peel from a specimen a transparent cross-section, one twenty-five thousandth of an inch thick for microscopic study...
This native plaster industry which has been in operation for sixty years, has presumably destroyed untold quantities of Triassic fossils. The specimen from the new chasmatosaurid genus was rescued from a rock pile destined for one of the kilns...
Many of the fossils brought back from Brazil are of genera never before seen by man. One of these, a delicately boned lizard, about fifteen inches long, belongs to the order of thecodonts, whose evolution developed some of the greatest dinosaures. Another specimen, an oddly crushed reptile skull, is believed to be chasmatosaurid, belonging to a carnivorous alligator type, probably about twelve feet long. Other new animals were found in the cynodont, dicynodont, and rhynchosaur groups...
...spindly sort, he had once been threatened with tuberculosis, knew there was small danger of his being chosen as an A-1 specimen. In 1918 he was finally called up, drafted into a Labor Battalion. One night of that was enough for Noel. He pulled wires, got transferred to the Artists' Rifles...
These rare, eel-like creatures which have no fins but possess two pairs of fleshy spines were brought over in their cocoons of hard baked mud in which they live during the dry season, often for as long as two years. Only nine inches now, some day these baby specimen may reach the length of five feet...