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A Quiet Giant |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE |
| Author: Vince Magers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,737 Words, 20,240 Characters |
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Zoologist Linda Trueb gingerly runs her fingers over a cast from a fossil of one of the most fascinating amphibians to ever wander the earth. This curious-looking creature--some 200 million years old--marks the first emergence of frogs as a distinct branch in the evolutionary thicket.vbcrlf The fossil, the only existing record of Triadobatrachus massinoti, reveals an animal radically reshaping its physical makeup. The low-slung amphibian--found on Madagascar--had the long trunk, short legs, and tail of a salamander. Most remarkable was its head, unmistakably that of a frog.vbcrlf "It isn't a salamander, but it's not yet a frog," Trueb explains, sitting in her book-lined office inside the Universit...
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...r adding well-schooled graduates to the ranks of botany, ornithology, and other fields.vbcrlf To make all of this a reality will take energy, imagination, and more than a little bureaucratic savvy, and Krishtalka appears equal to the challenge. It isn't hard to imagine that under his guidance the quiet giant will continue to cast a long shadow. vbcrlf
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