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Article: The weirdest crocodile Schaumburg professor unearths blunt- nosed croc after 70 million years.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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To the natives of Madagascar, an island nation known for unusual creatures, the visitors who routinely arrive with picks and shovels to dig in the dry earth are just another curiosity.
"They don't understand what we do exactly. We're the crazy foreigners who come in and dig up what they call the rock animals," said Gregory Buckley, a paleontologist, assistant professor of natural science at Roosevelt University in Schaumburg and research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Such was the case on a hot August day in 1998 when Buckley and a team of experts from the U.S., Canada and Madagascar continued their routine a day's drive from the tiny ...