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Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine
with bite!
This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org )
** Korean Cretaceous Dinosaur Coast seeks World Heritage status
The site is said to hold high archaeological value, as the footprints of the
archaeopteryxes are the biggest in the world and those of two
** Fossil reptiles mired in controversy
An ethics row has broken out among palaeontologists over the naming of
aetosaurs, a type of ancient armoured reptile
** These horseshoe crabs crawled beneath dinosaurs
Two nearly complete small horseshoe crab fossils discovered in Canada reveal
a new genus, pushing their origins back at least 100 million years earlier
than previously thought
** Palaeontologist won't back down on theory of dinosaur extinction
Keller says her examination of rock and soil samples taken from the region
shows that the meteor that caused the crater crashed to Earth about 300,000
years before the end of the Cretaceous period
** UT's dinosaur footprints to be preserved
A set of prehistoric dinosaur prints at the University Texas - currently
being housed in a small building near the Texas Memorial Museum - are some
of the best preserved in the country
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** Other Fossil News - Fossil-rich ravine at mercy of plunderers
Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul
ravine, rated by geologists as the world's premier site for the study of
species from the Permian period
** Duckbilled dinosaur coming back to North Dakota
The 65-million-year-old fossilized hadrosaur found in North Dakota's
Badlands a decade ago has been studied by palaeontologists, had its innards
scanned by NASA and starred in a National Geographic television documentary
** Plenty of work for dinosaur buffs in Queensland's west
Mr Elliot has since located 16 dinosaur sites on Belmont alone and is
working with the Queensland Museum to prepare the bones of two Sauropods
excavated on the property in the past few years
** Decoding dinos
Ohio University postdoctoral fellow Andrew Lee has turned a love of
dinosaurs into a career, and making groundbreaking discoveries about
dinosaur growth
** Triceratops skeleton up for Paris auction
The skeleton of the three-horned dinosaur, from a private European
collection, is the highlight of the April 16 auction
** Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash
The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub
crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may
modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth 65
million years ago
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** Other Fossil News - Fossil suggests platypus lived in dinosaur times
Australian scientists have discovered that the platypus is significantly
older than previously thought: it may have been around since 120 million
years ago, meaning it lived alongside the dinosaurs
** Field Position Fruita, Colorado
The Museum of Western Colorado has an opening for a summer field position at
the Mygatt-Moore Quarry (Morrison Formation)
** 9th Annual Paleontology Symposium
First "Call for Papers" for the 9th Annual Paleontology Symposium at the
Kansas Academy of Science annual meeting. www.oceansofkansas.com
** Physical Science Technician Hagerman, ID
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho
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