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**  Dino 'graveyard' reveals first Asian triceratops
In China's Shandong province, the 2-metre-long skull of a close relative of 
the famed horned dinosaur triceratops has been unearthed. It marks the first 
evidence that the group, called ceratopsids, ever lived outside western 
North America

**  Collection of dinosaur fossils auctioned off
Most of the items auctioned off by Maynards sold for much lower than 
estimated value, a boon for the dozens of budget-minded fossil hunters and 
palaeontology enthusiasts who gathered for the one-hour auction

**  Palaeontologist Sereno earns award named for early dinosaur explorer
Sereno is slated to receive the seventh annual Roy Chapman Andrews Society 
Distinguished Explorer Award on Thursday, Jan. 22 at Beloit College in 
Wisconsin

**  Dinosaur Provincial Park chosen as Canada's top natural wonder
Dinosaur Provincial Park is part of the Canadian Badlands and one of the 
world's greatest fossil beds, with 39 dinosaur species having been unearthed 
there
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**  Cities dig in to protect precious fossil sites
The Japanese municipalities, which have been the sites of recent dinosaur 
fossil discoveries, want to prevent the smuggling of the prehistoric finds, 
which has become a major headache in other countries

**  Feature Site - Natural History Museum Dino Directory Updated
Seven new dinosaurs have been added - Albertaceratops, Lophostropheus, 
Oryctodromeus, Pantydraco, Shanag, Sinocalliopteryx, Urbacodon

**  On the trail of giants in Utah's own Jurassic Park
When the giant meat eater, probably an allosaurus, walked across this spot 
about 150 million years ago, the landscape was a tropical environment on the 
shores of an inland sea, lush with ferns, cycads, conifers and ginkgo trees

**  Burpee's Big Find Gets More National Recognition
The National Geographic Society selected Burpee Museum's discovery of 
dinosaur bones in Hanksville, Utah earlier this year as one of the top ten 
finds for fossils and dinosaurs this year

**  Chinese scientists find huge dinosaur fossil field
Scientists found over 3,000 fossilized dinosaur bones, including a 2-meter 
skull of a large horned Ceratopsian, the first such finding outside of North 
America

**  The bone collector
As a member of a recovery team for Paleo Prospectors, a group of 
palaeontology enthusiasts and researchers who lease more than 100,000 acres 
of Western dinosaur- and fossil-bearing ranch land, he recently helped 
excavate a duck-billed Edmontosaurus in North Dakota

**  Pittsburgh Museum Curator Discovers Lost Worlds, Love Among Dino Bones
We found that we'd have an opportunity to actually spend two months together 
in another country doing field work because we're both palaeontologists
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**  Stanford scientists scan birdlike dinosaur for evolution clues
The researchers used synchrotron radiation, which produces intense X-ray 
beams, to build an elemental image of the creature

**  Daddy day care: dinosaur fathers guarded the eggs
You can call it dino daddy day care. Scientists who examined the fossilized 
remains of three types of medium-sized dinosaurs found with large clutches 
of eggs have concluded that the males rather than the females seem to have 
guarded the nests and brooded the eggs

**  Top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of 2008
National Geographic News has outlined a list of the ten most read stories on 
dinosaurs and fossils in the year 2008

**  Jurassic of Western Portugal: Almost Morrison
Those familiar with Dinosaur Ridge know about the discovery of Jurassic 
dinosaurs by Arthur Lakes in 1877 and, of course, the extensive dinosaur 
trackway being preserved and maintained by FoDR.

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