Word: pterodactyl
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...rare aviary; Joseph McGoldrick; and Henry Norris. The hoatzin is so rare a bird that few scientific men have ever seen it except William Beebe (TIME, April 7), who tracked it down in British Guiana. It is a primitive type, relic of vanished ages, closely allied to the pterodactyl, first known fossil bird. It has a very strong beak, with which it has been known to break rocks. It swims like a duck, its wings are webbed like a bat's. The newly hatched hoatzin has long claws on its thumb and first finger with which it climbs trees...