Soviet scientists have not yet taught shrimps to whistle, but Radio Moscow last week reported an even more fantastic feat. Geologists in northern Siberia, it recounted breathlessly, dug up a pair of salamanders that had been frozen for 5,000 years, thawed them out and fed them berries and mosquitoes from their hands. One of the prehistoric newts (tritons) scampered happily about for three weeks before it died; it was then bottled and sent to a Moscow University laboratory. Its comrade lived for several months in a museum.
Radio Moscow, which said the tale of two tritons was based on an...
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