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Word: megatherium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Beagle Sank the Ark | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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