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...junction was formed." He goes on to describe the minute fish scales visible underneath the monkey hair; the hands, teeth and fingers, distinctly different from a monkey's; and the fins placed differently from a fish's. "The animal was an ugly, dried up, black-looking and diminutive specimen, about three feet long," but Barnum loved it nonetheless...
...DOCTOR IN MARYLAND HAS ONE CLIMBING his chimney. Another lurks in the baggage area at the new Denver airport. A fearsome specimen keeps watch over the swimming pool of Court TV's Arthur Miller. A grotesque gaggle stars on its own Disney animated TV series. They're gargoyles--and for reasons no one can quite fathom they've become the hottest commodity to emerge from the Middle Ages since Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn...
...farfetched should talk to molecular biologist Scott Woodward. In last week's Science, Woodward announced that he had isolated DNA from an ancient creature that he was 90% sure was a dinosaur. If enough of it were collected, such a sample could, in theory, be cloned into a living specimen -- just like in the movies. Woodward, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, extracted the DNA from two bone fragments found in a Utah coal mine, where they had been protected by muck and never fossilized...
Chupasko said the retrieval of the specimen began Thursday as a joint effort by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the New England Aquarium...
That's exactly the case with the new species, which now bears the scientific name Australopithecus ramidus (ramid means root in the local Afar language). Like Lucy and her clan, known as Australopithecus afarensis, ramidus had teeth with some apelike and some human characteristics. But at least one specimen -- a baby molar still attached to a piece of an immature ramidus jaw -- resembles a chimpanzee tooth more than a molar from any known hominid. "It's obvious that it belongs to an ancestor of afarensis," says Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of the Nature...