to a surprising extent it begun. In 1898, t fellbetrove greater by far ticed, really—at a place called Bone Cabin Quarry, only a fe Como Bluff, yoming. to be found of t, tsomeone a cabin out of t t t bones ed from te, and tens of t followed.
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Otists besides Kelvin turned to tst only deepened tainty. Samuel on, a respected geologist at trinity Collegein Dublin, announced an estimated age for ting. o tention, edusing ta and put t 153 million years. Jorinity, decidedto give Edmond s idea a ions t . ed t t fit neatly enougions but unfortunately not y.
Suc by teentury, depending on you consulted, you could learn t t stood bet range. As late as 1910, one of t respected estimates, by t t pertle as 55 million years.
Just intractably confused, along came anotraordinaryfigure Ne Rutty able evidence t t leastmany her more.
Remarkably, ural, spontaneous, scientificallycredible, and alcon, it turned out, beenso er all. And exactly came to be is of course anotory.