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**  Bronze dinosaur represents a sort of homecoming
In 1858, the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a
marl pit on John Estaugh Hopkins' Haddonfield farm

**  Note to Tyrannosaurus rex: Avoid the water
Carcharodon megalodon, a giant predator that resembled today's great white
shark, was three times longer, an estimated 60 feet

**  New, Rare Breed of Frog Found in India
A new species of frog, whose ancestors hopped around at the feet of the
dinosaurs, has been discovered in the mountains of southern India

**  Traveling dinosaur exhibit indulges kids' biggest obsession
In his day, the late Jurassic period, he quaked the earth - and its
non-human inhabitants - so much with his walk he earned the name "earth
shaking lizard."

**  Geologists start major dinosaur dig in Missouri Breaks
Apart from logistics, the Rogerses' biggest concern is poachers. It's such a
concern that researchers will not provide exact coordinates - even in
research papers - for fear someone will disturb, destroy or loot their site.
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**  100-million-year-old dinosaur fossil found in northeast China
Chinese scientists announced Monday the "first discovery in East Asia" of
fossilized bones of a 100-million-year-old dinosaur at a village in
northeast China's Jilin Province, an area rare in dinosaurs fossils finds

**  Where the Dinosaurs Roamed
When the world's foremost palaeontologists gather at the Science Museum of
Minnesota on Wednesday, they will find a facility that is laying the
foundation for its future by reaching deep into the past

**  Montana the epicentre of modern-day dinosaur craze
A cottage industry has sprung up around dinosaur hunting, which brings in
people paying hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to participate in
digs

**  Dad has a bone to pick with museum over fossils
The museum did not act because Curator Jim Diffily said the bones he was
given were ancient crocodile bones, not significant enough to prompt a site
visit

**  Dinosaurs Demise Imminent
In less than 20 days Dinosaurs will be no more! That's right, just a short,
short time remains to see the oldest visitors ever to come to Dunedin - The
Chinese Dinosaurs.

**  T.Rex  Hunter or Scavenger?
A review

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