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Re: CNN reports: Murphy fiasco worse than thought?

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Subject: Re: CNN reports: Murphy fiasco worse than thought?
From: Tim Williams <tijawi@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
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Scott Hartman wrote:

> Read it carefully again if you have to...
> 
> No one should _ever_ take bones from pubic lands...for any
> reason.

Wise words, Scott.  This issue goes all the way back to beginnings of dinosaur 
paleontology, when Richard Brookes (1763) described a partial megalosaur 
thighbone as "Scrotum humanum".  

It was a truly seminal piece of work, I have to say.

Cheers

Tim

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