Living Animals Locked In Stone
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A horned lizard that had been found alive in a block of stone? so solid as to preclude the entrance of the smallest insect? was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington by Judge Houghton Institution in Washington by Judge Houghton of New Mexico in 1853. The lizard lived for two days after its release. During excavations being made for the Hartlepool waterworks in Durham, England, in 1865, workmen inadvertently freed a living toad from a block of magnesium limestone 25 feet below ground level. The cavity [in which the toad had been contained] was no larger than its body, and presented the appearance of being a cast of it. The today?s eye shone with unusual brilliancy, and it was full of vivacity on its liberation. IT appeared, when first discovered, desirous to perform the process of respiration, but evidently experienced some difficulty, and the only sign of success consisted of a ?barking? noise, which it continues invariably to make at present on being touched. The toad is in the possession on being touched. The toad is in possession of Mr.S. Horner, the president of the Natural History Society, and continues in as lively a state as when found. On a minute examination its mouth is found to be completely closed, and the barking noise it makes proceeds from its nostrils. The claws of its fore feet are turned inwards, and its hind ones are of extraordinary length and unlike the present English toad?.. The toad, when first released, was of a pale color and not readily distinguished from the stone, but shortly after its color grew darker until it become a fine olive brown. A local clergyman and geologist, the Reverend Robert Taylor, expressed the opinion that the toad was 6,000 years old. At the last report (1865) the creature was to be given a place of honor in the Hartlepool Museum, its ?primary habitation? ? the rock ? being
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