This was a startling find for two reasons.
And don't expect too many rare, startling finds.
Digs in France, at Cro-Magnon, and in Germany, at Neanderthal and Heidelberg, had produced startling finds of early humans.
Probably the most startling find, which was made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), was that the Moon is shrinking.
In four years' research, he has unearthed at least one startling find: Lang's first marriage, to one "Lisa Rosenthal" (perhaps a pseudonym), probably in 1919.
The evolutionary transition to full-time walking, which would have freed early humans' hands for using tools, clearly came later.Since young bones are fragile, such a complete specimen of an ancient infant is a startling find.
But all these symbols of existence-sustaining obsessions pale in comparison to this week's quite startling find... Why use words when you have a bunch of stickers to do the job.
Their discovery made the cover of Science in 1984, and a chapter of the 1998 book "The Enchanted Braid" (John Wiley), which called the startling find "a coup for a group of graduate students".
Finally, in the paper in tomorrow's issue of Physical Review Letters, a collaboration at KEK says that it has come up with another startling find, which it calls X 3872).
One hour into a credit union's office party on a Thursday evening cruise from Perth Amboy, N.J., to the Statue of Liberty, the boat's engineer made a startling find near a toilet: a fake air freshener that contained a suspicious device with wires.
