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This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the 
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**  Dinosaur Lady dies at 87
In 2004, she accepted the Morris Skinner Award from the United States-based 
Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology for outstanding and sustained 
contributions to scientific knowledge.
Ed: This issue of Dinosaurnews is dedicated to Joan as she was the 
inspiration for this web site several years ago and a personal friend.

**  Dinosaur mummy yields organic molecules
Wogelius and his colleagues conducted infrared imaging, amino acid analysis 
and high-temperature breakdown studies that show the organic materials taken 
from the hadrosaur are "completely different from the organics present as 
background in the surrounding geological sediment."

**  Qld hosts largest dinosaur museum
The first stage of what is expected to be Australia's largest dinosaur 
museum will open in the western Queensland town of Winton this week

**  How Dinosaurs Chewed
A novel analysis of microscopic scratches on fossilized teeth reveals how 
plant-eating duck-billed dinosaurs used a now-extinct type of jaw to chew 
their food
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**  Baby dinosaur lends hand in tale
The dinosaur tale playing out at the Nelson Provincial Museum keeps on 
growing, and now includes that of a baby dryosaur

**  Other fossil news - Toothy 3-foot Piranha Fossil Found
Megapiranha was up to 3 feet long (1 meter) - a fish-beast four times as big 
as piranhas living today, studies of its jawbones indicate

**  GW Professor discovers new dinosaur
Limusaurus inextricabilis ( meaning "mire lizard who could not escape" ) was 
found in 159 million-year-old deposits located in the Junggar Basin of 
Xinjiang, north-western China (see also story below)

**  Sereno finds 1st Nut-Eating Dino
The find is also significant in that the Psittacosaurus showed 
palaeontologists a whole new way that dinosaurs chewed, dubbed by Sereno and 
his co-authors as "inclined-angle" chewing

**  Origin of Species: How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown
It was at this moment - when a fragment of 68 million-year-old dinosaur was 
rendered as strings of letters decipherable only by the most labyrinthine 
mathematical algorithms - that empirical certainty crumbled

**  Huge Dinosaur Tooth Found in Spain
An allosaurid tooth as long as a tall man's finger has been found in Spain, 
a researcher said, making it the largest tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur 
ever found in that country
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**  Carnivorous dinosaur's teeth discovered
Museum officials in Japan say fossilized teeth from an ancestor of the 
tyrannosaurus have been found in the Hyogo Prefecture

**  Blast to the past: Explosives team helps researchers excavate prized 
dinosaur quarry
Thwarted since 2007 by layers of rock-hard sandstone, researchers at one of 
Dinosaur National Monument's most important quarries turned to something 
more potent than brushes and hammers: explosives

**  Dinosaurs shed a few tons in science makeover
Scientists have discovered that dinosaurs may have been much lighter and 
sleeker than previously thought because of potential flaws in the equations 
used to calculate their weight

**  How Dinosaur Feet Evolved Into Bird Wings: New Fossil Provides Clues
A fossilized dinosaur found in China appears to settle the matter of exactly 
how the bones in dinosaurs' feet evolved into the digits hidden in bird 
wings

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