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** ROM displays a dinosaur treasure trove
Thirty crates of pre-historic Russian fossils, dinosaur skeletons and skulls
arrived at the ROM late last week after being held up by suspicious Russian
inspectors

** Raising the Sea Dragon
Ichthyosaurs were one of the most successful groups of aquatic reptiles,
with a world wide distribution and a time span of more than 150 million
years

** ''Beasts'' bests ``Croc'' in battle for audiences
``Beasts'' is already the U.S.'s highest-rated documentary for 2001 and is
notching up impressive audiences in the U.K

**  Feature Site: Discovering Dinosaurs site grid
Trace the great dinosaur debate through time by traveling down through each
color-coded theme

**  Curatorial Corner
"What keeps me going is the constant excitement that over the next hill
there may be some fantastic discovery, something never before seen by man."
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**  Triceratops horridus at the Smithsonian
Triceratops was an herbivorous or plant-eating dinosaur that lived during
the Cretaceous Period of geologic time, over 65 million years ago.  CLICK
HERE for quicktime animation

**  Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?
Ask your average paleontologist who is familiar with the phylogeny of
vertebrates and they will probably tell you that yes, birds (avians) are
dinosaurs

**  Dinosaur Sculptors
An interesting collection of links to the work of leading dino-artists
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**  Dinosaur Expedition 2002
This coming summer 2002, the Judith River Dinosaur Istitute invites you to
join Nate Murphy,Director of Vertebrate Paleontology, Phillips County
Museum,and his team for "DINOSAUR EXPEDITION 2002."

**  Fossil preparation
The fossils prepared in the Monash PalaeoLab are not quite like the
stereotype specimens you see in films like Jurassic Park

**  River Tay home to Ancient Fish
An ncient fish found in fossils from before the age of the dinosaurs, but
which is still living in the Tay, is being proposed for protection

**  Foothills ecology to get a hand
The properties contain rock features that dramatically illustrate the
hogback's geology and contain a national landmark feature -- Dinosaur Ridge

**  Students want mastodon as state fossil
The students in Jeff Bradley's "Making Mastodon Michigan's"
interdisciplinary class are hopeful that the bill will become law

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