Word: ox
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Harvard has another "living fossil" and it's not a member of the faculty. A report published by Harold J. Coolidge, Assistant Curator of Mammals, in the Harvard Museum Monograph today, indicates that the specimen of a wild ox or kouprey presented to the museum last year is an entirely new genus close to the ancestral line of modern domestic cattle...
...Harvard kouprey, an old adult bull, was shot by Mr. Francois Edmond-Blanc, member of a Franco-American scientific expedition to Indo-China. The ox was presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology by James C. Greenway, Jr. of the Museum staff, who was also a member of the expedition...
...newly discovered ox possesses extremely primitive physical features which place the animal close to the ancient ancestral line of modern domestic cattle and as a form which probably branched off the main cattle family stem, before the bison, yak, zebu, gaur, and bantin about ten million years back, in the middle pliocene period...
HARVARD'S highbrow readers will cast the book aside after one look at the jacket. Intelligent folks just do not read Western novels, with pictures of covered wagons and cow-punchers on the outside. So Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident" would get no more than a sophisticated sneer from the educated elite...
...Ox-Bow Incident" is no rippin', rarin', shootin', swearin' type of wooly Western bellowdrama, with horsemen riding hell bent for leather towards the Mexican border pursued by pop-gun posses. In Clark's book there is only one shooting and three hangings, all told, and even then the fellow that gets shot ain't killed...