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...more famous individuals are capable of raising money all over," says Ian H. Stirton, a public affairs specialist at the Federal Election Commission...
...that I wish to belittle Dr. Ruben A. Stirton's zealous search for facts about the prehistoric diprotodon [TIME, July 20], but it seems to me that James Thurber discovered it first...
Name: diprotodon. Age: uncertain. Domicile: Australia. Physical characteristics: looks like a rhinoceros but has a pouch like a kangaroo. These are the vital specifications of one of the strangest prehistoric beasts known. Henceforth, thanks to Ruben A. Stirton, professor of paleontology at the University of California, scientists will learn a lot more about the diprotodon than the few fragmentary facts which, in the past, enabled them to put together only a vague sort of passport picture...
...months Stirton has been poking around in the dry northeastern corner of South Australia, in a place where fossil bones had been reported. Last week, back in Adelaide, he told about a major find: the skeletons of 500 to 1,000 diprotodons, entombed just beneath the desert surface. He brought back one skeleton, the first ever found complete, and parts of two others...
...herd of them, searching desperately for water, must have lumbered out on the caked floor of a dried-up lake. The crust broke and lowered them into soft, smothering clay. Then sediment covered their skeletons and preserved them perfectly. There. Dr. Stirton came upon remains of the great, out-of-date beasts, some of them with their legs doubled under them as they waited for death. He hopes that more digging will turn up, among other things, the delicate skeletons of baby diprotodons that were smothered in their mothers' pouches when they sank into...