UK scientists find ^lost^ Darwin fossils page 1
Gawdzilla
18th January 2012, 01:35 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-scientists-lost-darwin-fossils-060025391.html
LONDON (AP) — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey.
Using a flashlight to peer into the drawers and hold up a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled 'C. Darwin Esq."
"It took me a while just to convince myself that it was Darwin's signature on the slide," the paleontologist said, adding he soon realized it was a "quite important and overlooked" specimen.
He described the feeling of seeing that famous signature as "a heart in your mouth situation," saying he wondering "Goodness, what have I discovered!"
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LONDON (AP) — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey.
Using a flashlight to peer into the drawers and hold up a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled 'C. Darwin Esq."
"It took me a while just to convince myself that it was Darwin's signature on the slide," the paleontologist said, adding he soon realized it was a "quite important and overlooked" specimen.
He described the feeling of seeing that famous signature as "a heart in your mouth situation," saying he wondering "Goodness, what have I discovered!"
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Exi5tentialist
18th January 2012, 11:47 PM
That's awesome. Christ, imagine being the scientist who re-discovered it!
On a lighter note, I just found a pile of dog-eared handwritten notebooks in my loft, signed by 'W. Shakespeare' or something, had a load of stilted ramblings all over them, barely readable, obviously too old to be worth anything. It was such a relief when I heard the bin men chucking it all in the truck this morning. At least we'll be able to get the roof re-tiled now all the clutter's gone. It just goes to show, that scientist struck lucky but most of what you find in your house nowadays is useless tat.
On a lighter note, I just found a pile of dog-eared handwritten notebooks in my loft, signed by 'W. Shakespeare' or something, had a load of stilted ramblings all over them, barely readable, obviously too old to be worth anything. It was such a relief when I heard the bin men chucking it all in the truck this morning. At least we'll be able to get the roof re-tiled now all the clutter's gone. It just goes to show, that scientist struck lucky but most of what you find in your house nowadays is useless tat.
Gawdzilla
18th January 2012, 11:50 PM
True. Now if it had been signed by a certain person named "Bacon", that would have been a find.
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