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Robert Krulwich - Here's Something You Don't Want To Know: NPR

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 31, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 18:38
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It’s an 80-year-old illustration showing the largest animals and plants in the world. The ugly little secret is item no. 10, that totally unnoticeable line in the middle of the picture just below the dinosaur and the snake.

The image first appeared in H.G. Wells, J.S. Huxley and G. P. Well’s book "The Science of Life", published in 1931.

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