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** Burpee Museum Has Big Plans For Major Grant Funds
Rockford's Burpee Museum has been awarded a major federal grant that will be
used to enhance the upcoming "Jane the Dinosaur" exhibit
** Fossils may be a dinosaur day-care
Fossil evidence of dinosaurs caring for their young is rare, but it is hard
to imagine what else could have been going on in a 125-million-year-old
tableau unearthed in north-eastern China
** Dinosaur footprints discovered in B.C.
"This first-time evidence shows these dinosaurs crossed the prehistoric
North American continent over the newly formed landscape of ancestral
British Columbia to gaze upon the western ocean," said Richard Hebda,
curator of Botany and Earth History at the Royal British Columbia Museum
** Old Fossils, New Models Grace Natural History Museum
The exhibit includes a theorized fabrication of the lower leg and foot bones
from an Ultrasaurus dinosaur, perhaps the largest dinosaur ever with a lower
leg extending more than 10 feet and weighing about 250 pounds
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** Feature Site: Meeting Fang & Fred
Fang is a robotic reconstruction of the North African Cretaceous
'mini-tyrannosaur', Afrovenator abakensis; and Fred is a life-size
reconstruction of a primitive tapinocephalid dinocephalian (early
proto-mammal or 'mammal-like reptile')
** Students dig dinosaur and fossil class
For decades, the Carnegie, one of the country's largest natural history
museums with 21 million objects, has sponsored outreach programs to local
schools
** Dinosaur project unites KU, Union Station
Union Station plans a Feb. 18 opening of an exhibit in which University of
Kansas palaeontologists will rebuild the skeleton of a 60-foot dinosaur
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*** Dino-Birds: From Dinosaurs to Birds ***
Dinosaur expert Angela Milner looks at the astounding fossil
"feathery"dinosaurs from China and the bird fossils from other sights around
the world
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0565091743/drdrumsnotforpro
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** Dinosaurs with feathers? Naturally
Ever thought about your Sunday lunchtime roast chicken as a tiny dinosaur
sitting on your plate?
** Natural history museum, long-stalled, now open
Located in the Gyeryongsan National Park in Gongju, South Chungcheong
province, the three-story privately owned museum cost 46 billion won ($40
million) to construct
** Pangea Institute Invitation
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