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** Paleo-Fest at the Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois
A dozen famous dinosaur hunters and paleontologists will gather at the
Burpee Museum on Feb. 21-22 to share their expertise with budding
paleontologists and "dino-geeks" of all ages
** First Antarctic dinosaur fossils shed light on Earth's past
Recovering the animal's pelvis and various leg bones, William Hammer, a
geology professor at the Rock Island, Ill., school, said he thinks the newly
discovered fossil is an extremely early species of sauropod
** Dino 'survival' claim disputed
The idea that dinosaurs survived for some time after the asteroid impact
blamed for wiping them out 65 million years ago has been dealt a blow
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** Bone from 20-tonne dinosaur found in quarry
The fossil has come from rocks known as the Purbeck Beds, in Portland,
Dorset, formed in an arid lagoon about 130 million years ago
** T. rex could use a good lawyer
Horner concedes that the scavenger argument is not a major issue within the
paleontological community
** Final week in Patagonia keeps crew busy
Ramone Ebulef, a leather-tough gaucho who sleeps under the stars and lives
alone but for his horses and dogs, came through last week for a team of
dinosaur hunters
** Much Ado About "Sue"
The Mesa Southwest Museum has some dino-mite programs planned in conjunction
with its new exhibit "A T. rex Named Sue" and has also expanded hours of
operation in order to provide the opportunity for more families to enjoy the
programs
** Resort saves park's dinosaurs from extinction
It only took a few days for the theme park Kyoryu (Dinosaur) Park Kisarazu
to find a new home for its 65 full-size dinosaur models ahead of its Feb. 11
closure
** Developers try to allay fears about dinosaur theme park
Developers of the proposed $10 million Magic Canyon theme park, to be built
in a 52-acre quarry on U.S. Route 44-state Route 55, say the operation would
be quieter than the gravel mining business that preceded it
** Pangea Institute announces another of its successful Phosphate Fossil
Dig adventures
** Super deadly killer dinosaurs? T. rex's biomechanical truce with
incompetence
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