IN the abstract of my lecture published in NATURE, vol. xiii., P. 387, it is stated that “the first discovered evidences of the existence of animals of this group were described by Leidy, in 1872, ...

A few years back, shortly after he introduced me to a splendid fossil alligator, Peabody Museum of Natural History collections manager Christopher Norris led me into a bright room piled high with ...

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AN almost complete skeleton of Uintatherium, a six-horned animal the size of an elephant which dominated the primitive forests of southern Wyoming about thirty million years ago, has been found by Dr.

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