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** Dinosaur bones to be preserved in shipping containers
The founders of a dinosaur museum in western Queensland say ancient bones
from the region will be preserved for generations to come thanks to new
insulated storage containers
** China's Dinosaur Fossil Collections Are Vast - But Are They Real?
In one hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases
or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along
with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different
parts of China
** Jack Horner's Plan to Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life
Larsson is at the forefront of merging palaeontology and molecular biology
in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes - the development of new
species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of
animals - to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated
** Dinosaur Bird Bones
The new dinosaur, named Aerosteon , seems to have had a unique breathing
system that birds likely inherited through evolution
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** Youngest lobbyist argues for new state dinosaur
Unlike his 10-year-old peers, this dinosaur enthusiast researched the best
choice for a new state dinosaur and stood toe to toe with a state legislator
to argue his pick - Technosaurus smalli
** Triceratops was a social animal, indicates new evidence
A new discovery of a jumble of at least three young Triceratops in the
badlands of the north-central US has suggested that the three-horned
dinosaurs were social animals, and may have exhibited unique gregarious
groupings of juveniles
** North America's smallest dinosaur found
Canadian researchers say they have discovered North America's smallest known
dinosaur, a pint-sized predator half the size of a house cat and cousin to
the ferocious Velociraptor, which roamed in what is now Alberta 75 million
years ago
** Complete dino skeleton doesn't sell at NY auction
A New York gallery says a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a
9-foot-long dryosaurus has failed to sell at auction
** The Dinosaur Fossil Wars
As Ron Frithiof, an Austin, Texas, real-estate developer turned dinosaur
prospector, dug cautiously around it in a rugged expanse of backcountry, he
was growing increasingly confident that he and his partners were uncovering
a once-in-a-lifetime find
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** Fossil puzzle reveals a new monster predator
The fossils of a monster predator with a circular jaw and a pair of claws on
its head has been discovered in the old collections of the Smithsonian
museum in Washington
** Why haven't there been many big dinosaurs found in Australia?
Over the past fifteen years large bones have started to surface in an area
known as the Winton Formation - a set of sedimentary rocks that make up the
remnants of river plains on the edge of a large inland sea that covered a
large part of central Queensland during the Cretaceous period
** Not Dinos But - Cretaceous Octopus With Ink And Suckers
The five specimens, described in the latest issue of the journal
Palaeontology, are 95 million years old but, astonishingly, preserve the
octopuses' eight arms with traces of muscles and those characteristic rows
of suckers
** Tianyulong - a fuzzy dinosaur that makes the origin of feathers fuzzier
If its filaments are related to the proto-feathers of the theropods (which
is possible but not certain), they either evolved independently or were
derived from filaments that covered the very earliest of dinosaurs
** Vote for Your Favourite Dinosaur Illustration
Working with scientists and armed with just their wits and pens, these
artists strive to create the reality of the past with the artifice of the
present
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