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...Jensen found the tooth of a long-extinct, snub-nosed little reptile called Lystrosaurus, which lived in Asia and Africa 200 million years ago. Its discovery in Antarctica provided convincing evidence that the continents were once linked together...
Goodpaster came to TIME in 1964 after stints as city editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and managing editor of the now-extinct San Fernando Valley Times. But he worried about Washington journalism becoming too big, too separated from the people, and he decided to act on his misgivings...
...bats; an increase in the weight of beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live as it did before the coming of the Spanish." That is, by sucking on wild animals but not on horses and cows...
...epidemic was shocking even beyond the dead count because smallpox has been considered all but extinct in industrialized nations (TIME, Jan. 24). Yugoslavia, for instance, had not suffered an outbreak for 40 years. The U.S. Public Health Service no longer requires travelers to have proof of recent immunization before entering the country unless they have been in one of the few places where the disease is still common. Now those arriving from Yugoslavia must show evidence that a vaccination has taken. A person lacking a certificate must keep in touch with health authorities for at least two weeks...
...gray whale, once considered virtually extinct, is alive and multiplying in the lagoons along the coast of Baja California. That news was reported last week by Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Hubbs credited the whale's comeback to Mexico's ban on hunting and its designation of a large lagoon as a whale sanctuary. According to Hubbs, four other supposedly doomed species are also winning the fight against extinction. The northern elephant seal and the Guadalupe fur seal are both doing well on the tiny remote island of Guadalupe off Baja. The sea otter...