The fossils belong to Captorhinus, a small early reptile roughly the size of a bearded dragon that lived approximately 289–286 million years ago.
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Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
The strongest lingering image of Vernon in the broader culture is still the bearded woodsman who retreated to the wilderness with a broken heart and returned with a gnomic, insular album that would against all odds come to define its era, or at least one tendency within it.
Cowley conceived of the American tradition, dating back to the eighteenth century, as analogous to, say, that of the French: a comprehensible sequence of geographic and aesthetic developments, not the mere littering of hirsute eccentrics that it was typically taken to be.
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Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.
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