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** Dino-Days in Dixie
This year's celebration includes a groundbreaking ceremony for the St.
George Dinosaur Track Site at the Johnson Farm, which will be home to
hundreds of Early Jurassic dinosaur footprints discovered by Sheldon Johnson
in 2000
** Dinosaur poachers keep BLM busy
But while BLM's public land may have started out as leftovers that no one
else wanted, it has turned out to be prime territory for palaeontology --
fossil hunting and the unearthing of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures
** Dinosaur exhibit to feature new specimens
Exciting discoveries are emerging from recent fieldwork in south-eastern
Idaho conducted through efforts of the Idaho Dinosaur Project, Idaho Museum
of Natural History
** All roads to lead to dinosaur trail
Australia's first dinosaur trail, in western Queensland, is expected to be
launched in April in time for this year's tourist season
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** The Official State Dinosaur?
The Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project, led by Guy Darrough, was founded in
1999 to develop the geology of the site and recover the rest of the bones
** Dino's skin tells tale of environment
But what the duck-billed vegetarian left behind - to be discovered in
Northern Wyoming more than 67 million years later - is providing new
glimpses into the humid and tropical prehistoric world that once existed in
our region and may lead scientists to rethink the reaches of a vast inland
ocean
** 70-million-year-old bird skeleton found
Vlad Codrea, who is considered to be Romania's top palaeontologist, said the
enantiornithine is the country's oldest bird fossil
** U.S. Lands Are Fossil Hunting Grounds
But a number of poachers don't have permits and dig anyway, O'Neill said,
typically "high-grading" sites by taking the sellable fossils and trashing
the rest
** Missing trailer full of dinosaur bones, fossils found
The 9-foot-tall brontosaurus femur and 20-million-year-old palm frond fossil
were in a trailer stolen Saturday from a construction site in Woodland Park
** Prehistoric Plastic, Rubber Reptiles & Metal Monsters
** Fossil Fair 2004
The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, NC presents Fossil Fair
2004 February 27-29th, with special guest Palaeontologist Jack Horner making
three public presentations
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now filed online
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