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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 )

**  What big teeth this Alaska dinosaur had
Troodon was a meat eater that looked like an eight-foot bird, with the mouth 
and tail of an alligator

**  Molecular analysis confirms T. Rex, chicken link
Molecular analysis, or genetic sequencing, of a 68-million-year-old 
Tyrannosaurus rex protein from the dinosaur's femur discovered in 2003 by 
palaeontologist John Horner of the Museum of the Rockies confirms that T. 
rex shares a common ancestry with chickens, ostriches, and to a lesser 
extent, alligators

**  First Dinosaur Tracks Discovered On Arabian Peninsula
They have discovered evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a 
herd of 11 sauropods walking along a Mesozoic coastal mudflat in what is now 
the Republic of Yemen

**  Dinosaur find in Dorset
The most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Britain is about to go on 
display - evidence of a species unique to Britain that perished in a 
devastating flood

**  On the hunt for elusive largest dinosaur
The chances of finding evidence of what is believed to be the largest 
dinosaur to roam the Earth are slim, but the thrill of potentially laying 
claim to the monumental discovery is spurring a Drumheller palaeontologist

**  Replica of T. rex Sue goes home
But like a heartbreaking old flame, Sue's reappearance - in the form of a 
replica - has stirred mixed emotions in Faith, S.D.

**  George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park celebrates its 15th anniversary
The park features more than 125 dinosaurs, displayed on eight acres on the 
south side of the Ogden River, near the mouth of Ogden Canyon
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**  Dinosaur bones remain locked down at Utah monument
For nearly two years, the nation's premier quarry of Jurassic-period 
dinosaur bones has been kept behind locked doors in a building deemed unsafe 
for the public

**  The $942,797 Triceratops
As fossils become more expensive, we join the Society of Vertebrate 
Paleontology and dinosaur lovers of all ages in appealing to private 
collectors: Please find a way to put the significant fossils into the public 
trust

**  Dino illustrator takes art below the skin
Carol Abraczinskas sketches the fossil finds of famed dinosaur hunter Paul 
Sereno, an art she undertook 18 years ago

**  What is a Dino Mummy?
Find out why dinosaur mummies are the most rare and valuable of fossil 
finds - National Geographic

**  New Triassic exhibit hall opens
Dawn of the Dinosaurs: New Mexico's Triassic, explores the plants and 
animals of the Triassic period in New Mexico and the world.

**  'Dinosaur Highway' rich in dig sites, museums
Currently, Montana's Two Medicine Dinosaur Centre displays a skeletal model 
of seimosaurus, believed to be the world's longest dinosaur, and Colorado's 
Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Centre's 17-foot-long Xiphactinus audax is among the 
largest, most complete examples of this shark ancestor

**  World Biggest Dinosaur Tracks Found in Korea
The Natural Heritage Centre under the National Research Institute of 
Cultural Heritage has announced that it found the fossil trackway of two 
baby dinosaurs dating back to 110 million years in Euiseong County, North 
Gyeongsang Province
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**  Dinosaur death tied to sun's bounce
The sun bounces up and down as it roams the Milky Way, and such wavering 
might have hurled showers of comets Earth's way that caused mass 
extinctions, including the one that killed the dinosaurs, a new study claims

**  T. rex vs. T. rex
The King of the Dinosaurs Returns to Carnegie Museum of Natural History 
Final Phase of Dinosaurs in Their Time Opens on Father's Day, June 15, 2008

**  Antarctic Conference of Gondwanan Palaeontology
This is a call for papers and an announcement of details for the first 
Antarctic Conference of Gondwanan Palaeontology.
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**  Workshop on sauropod gigantism, student grants
As part of an interdisciplinary DFG-funded research project on sauropod 
dinosaurs organisers have obtained funding to convene an international 
workshop at the University of Bonn, Germany, in November of 2008

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