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** Fossil evidence backs dinosaur extinction theory
Writing in the journal Geology, a team of scientists, led by Simone Galeotti
of the University of Urbino in Italy and Henk Brinkhuis of the University of
Utrecht in the Netherlands, said a Tunisian site called El Kef had now
yielded evidence of the sudden cooling that would have followed
** Where's Wally?
Wally's a propagated Wollemi pine, the "dinosaur" plant, the Jurassic
miracle of all flora
** Bringing dinosaurs to a kid's level
The life-size dinosaur nest is one of several interactive displays in
Dinostories, a new exhibit which opened Friday at the Coyote Point Museum in
San Mateo
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** Coming Soon: Dinosaurs at the National Museum of Natural History
Visitors will also get a chance to join the museum's new dinosaur curator,
Dr. Matthew Carrano, on his field expeditions to Wyoming and Madagascar
** Big dinosaur heads for Salt Lake
The bones of the giant reptile - identified as a hadrosaur, or duckbill -
will be loaded onto a flatbed truck waiting along state Route 12 near
Henrieville and hauled to Salt Lake City for further study at the Utah
Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah
** Landowner donates dinosaur plot to govt
The site attracted media attention early this month when palaeontology
expert Dr Warawuth Sutheerathorn complained that almost 1,000 dinosaur
footprints in the area had been destroyed
** Not Dinosaurs But: Ancient sea creature sucked in prey
Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close,
the animal quickly expanded its formidable throat to suck in its dinner.
More
** The plumage of birds is no mere flight of fancy
Sinosauropteryx was a chicken-sized coelurosaur that lived some 120 million
to 150 million years ago
** Cretaceous Creatures Great and Small - Arizona, 75,000,000 Years Ago
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