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45. 1997. Why does the newt cross the road? 192(4):unnumbered 



A small article on the California Newt and the closing to traffic of South Bay Drive in Tilden 

 Regional Park in Berkeley, California in the fall rainy season. Newt mortality dropped off sharply as 

 a result of the travel modification . 



46. . 1997. A reptile runs into history's record books. 192(5):unnumbered. 



Notice of the discovery of a fossilized as yet unnamed bipedal reptile from about 280 million years 

 ago. Found in present central Germany but lived when Europe and North America were connected 

 into the supercontinent Pangaea. This, the earliest bipedal reptile predates dinosaurs by 50 million 

 years. 



47. . 1997. Limbs on a snake family tree. 192(6):unnumbered. 



A 95-million year old three-foot water snake has unsnakelike features: inch-long rear legs. 

 Discovered 20 years ago on the Jordan Rivers west bank it was originally thought to be a lizard. 



48. . 1998. Snake venom strikes at heart attacks. 193(5):unnumbered. 



Merck markets Aggrastat for heart attacks from a protein (since synthesized) from a Saw-scaled 

 Viper which keeps human blood platelets from sticking together. 



49. 1998. New dinosaur from the Sahara. 194(6):unnumbered 



A new spinosaur dinosaur trying to be a crocodile was discovered in the Tenere in the Sahara in Niger. 

 It was named Suchoniimus tenerensis. 



50. Attenborough, David. 1957. Animal safari to British Guiana. lll(6):850-874. 



This interesting article on a wildlife hunt for BBC Television and the London Zoo begins with the 

 capture of a Cayman in British Guiana and continues with the capture of other anmials. Photo of 

 Cheliis fimbriata. 



51. Azel, Jose. 1995. Wildlife as Canon sees it. Y^omodo Dxdigow {Varanus komodoensis). 

 187(6):unnumbered. 



Picture of a Komodo Dragon on a beach. 



52. Bailey, Alfred M. 1941. Cruise of the A^mA'«/o». 80(3): 338-366. 



Account of a voyage to the desert islands off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. A form of 

 kingsnake was collected on Isabela Island. A Marine iguana is illustrated on the beach on Isabela. 



53. Bakker, Edie. 1994. Return to Hunstein Forest. 185(2):40-63. 



Located in Papua New Guinea the forest may fall to the axe. Frogs are mentioned in the article and 

 it is stated that five new species were recently discovered there. A Cophixalus variegatiis is shown. 



54. Balog, James. 1990. A personal vision of vanishing wildlife. 177(4):84-103. 

 A photo of a Atlantic Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas mydas, is presented. 



55. Barbour, Thomas. 1908. Notes on a zoological collecting trip to Dutch New Guinea. 

 19(6):469-484. 



Most of this article deals with the people, houses, canoes and the like and the fact the area has 

 magnificent butterflies. Nothing of herpetological interest but this article and the following were 

 written by a noted herpetologist. 



