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SQUAPS, THE MOONLING, by Ursina Ziegler, translated from the German by Barbara Kowal Gollob, illustrated by Sita Jucker (Atheneum; $4.95). Apollo 11 literary fallout about an astronaut who returns from the moon with a funny little creature clinging to his space suit. His children make it their playmate and call it Squaps (the sound that answers all questions on the moon). Squaps enjoys the earth, especially his discovery of water -from shower baths, sprinklers and watering cans. And then comes the next full moon...
Swedish Explorer Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered several of its fossilized branches on Norway's Bear Island in 1899. Remnants of its fanlike leaves have since been found in Alaska. But it remained for Bonn University Paleobotanist Hans-Joachim Schweitzer to determine that an ancient plant called Pseudobornia ursina was actually a tree that grew as high as 65 ft.-50 million years earlier than other trees of comparable height are known to have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia...
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