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** NY auctioneer withdraws smuggled dinosaur eggs
Luis Chiappe, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County, said one of the items at issue was a sauropod
dinosaur embryo
** Dinosaur World expanding amid its success
The exhibits include authentic fossils of Velociraptor eggs, Triceratops
horns, Stegosaurus tail spikes and even a chunk of coprolite - fossilized
dinosaur dung
** Fossils back dinosaur extinction theory
Fossil plankton dating from 65 million years ago helps confirm the theory
that a dark winter lasting many thousands of years doomed the dinosaurs MORE
** Feature Site: Lark Quarry Conservation Park
The stampede happened 95 million years ago when a theropod, a large
meat-eating dinosaur, startled and chased a horde of much smaller dinosaurs
(coelurosaurs and ornithopods) on the muddy shores of a lake
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** Dinosaurs Invade New York
Long Island's newest attraction, the Dinosaur Walk Museum, opens in
Riverhead, New York, with the Grand Opening scheduled for Tuesday, June
29th, 2004
** Boy gets auction bargain: $550 dinosaur horn
Eamon Rush, 6, now has something no other kid on his block has, a 60
million-year-old dinosaur bone
** Australia hands back seized dinosaur eggs to China
At a ceremony held in China, Minister for Justice and Customs Christopher
Ellison gave a list of 32 fossils seized by Australian Customs for the past
year to Chinese Ambassador to Australia Fu Ying
** Museum takes visitors through a day in the life of the Cretaceous period
Kids can touch casts of real fossils, including the lower jaw of an adult T.
rex, dinosaur teeth and a triceratops horn, learn more about fossils through
multiple electronic touchable screens and visit a smelling station where
they're asked to identify the scent of flowers, trees and a herd of dinos
** More Fossil News: History of species more precise under new formula,
scientists say
Scientists say they can now explain why the history of evolution recorded in
fossils doesn't always match the story told by genes
** Where else would you expect to find an Arizonasaurus? Only at the Mesa
Southwest Museum!
** Calling All Paleo-artists International Contest of Dinosaur
Illustrations 2004
** Visit the DINOSAURNEWS News Archive - stories from the past fortnight
now filed online
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