Word: paynter
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According to Raymond A. Paynter, Jr., associate curator of Birds, some of the bone chunks range up to 125 million years old, and have been collected from various sources. The purpose of the store is to give the hoards of children who daily pass through the museum an interest in paleontology through personal possession...
...Proceeds from the sales will be used to refurbish our exhibits," said Paynter, as wily mothers skillfully steered their acquisitive children away from the stand. The sale of the dinosaur bones has been slow at first, but Paynter expressed the hope that they would increase as word of the store spread among the local schools...
...Paynter submitted his opinion after examination of certain tissue segments and of the birds' stomachs (which were full, indicating that death was at the end of the day). He called his method of determination "highly empirical...
...basis of Paynter's findings, the FAA now assumes that the plane flew through a flock of starlings, some of which jammed the engine. The agency expects to find bits of birds in the engine when it is salvaged from...
...Paynter had previously been advising the Fish and Wildlife Service on ways to combat the dangerous flocking of seagulls around the airport. He had expected to hear that gulls caused the crash, he said, because it was a flock of gulls, not starlings, which had previously proven bothersome at Logan and had prompted the Fish and Wildlife Service's action...