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** When dinosaurs bite
Tyrannosaurus rex's name means "tyrant lizard": its moniker reflecting the
carnage supposedly wrecked by this famous ancient reptile's huge jaws and
rows of impressive teeth
** Full Marine Reptile Skeleton Found in Alaska
It was the low tide that made the discovery possible as a rare marine
creature called Thalattosaurs was submerged in water and rocks
** Largest-ever dinosaur tooth marks found in S Korea
Paik and his team from the Environmental Sciences Department of Pukyong
National University in Pusan found the tooth marks in the tailbone of a
mature Pukyongosaurus, a four-legged herbivore that lived on the Korean
peninsula during the early Cretaceous Period some 120 million years ago
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** How dinosaurs put proteins into long-term storage
How does one prove that the protein isolated from a 68-million-year-old
dinosaur bone is not a contamination from the intervening millenia or from
the lab?
** Dinosaur Dreams
In a few weeks I'll head out to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico - a place chock-full
of Triassic dinosaurs that I have been meaning to visit for quite some
time - and in September I'll be off to Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument
** Not Dinos But: Mosasaur: How a reptile came to dominate the seas
Within the span of roughly 27 million years, these predators transformed
from an animal with limited swimming ability and limbs still meant for
walking into a sleek, fishlike form
** What dinosaur eggs reveal about male attractiveness
Dr. Apostolou argues that a man hoping to mate should create the human
equivalent of a peacock tail: a collection
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** Acristavus: North America's New Hadrosaur
Often called the "cows of the Cretaceous," these big herbivores are often
cast as relatively uninteresting animals that primarily served as fodder for
the more charismatic tyrannosaurs and other predators
** Museum of Rockies to tour Asia
Millions of visitors are expected to see an exhibit on current dinosaur
research from the Museum of the Rockies that is scheduled to tour throughout
Asia over the next three years
** Research Sheds Light On South Pole Dinosaurs
Dog-sized dinosaurs that lived near the South Pole, sometimes in the dark
for months at a time, had bone tissue very similar to dinosaurs that lived
everywhere on the planet, according to a doctoral candidate at Montana State
University
** Dinosaur Hall Roars To Life In Los Angeles
The centerpiece of the revamped exhibit are three Tyrannosaurus rex
skeletons, including the youngest known T. rex fossil in the world (see
above)
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** Visiting Haddonfield, N.J., where the first entire dinosaur skeleton was
discovered
William Parker Foulke was visiting a friend in Haddonfield when he heard
that some giant bones had been found in a nearby marl pit
** The ROM's dinosaur-hunter, deep in Alberta's badlands
He can spot an inch-long bone amid a pile of rocks, and know instantly that
millions of years ago it belonged to a dromaeosaur, the feathered,
sickle-clawed family of dinosaurs commonly referred to as raptors
** Dinosaur Egg Clutches, Not as Simple as Chicken Eggs
Observation of egg clutches allows for greater interpretation of dinosaur
reproductive behaviors and the depositional paleoenvironment of the clutch
than looking at the individual eggs alone
** 70 million years ago, supercrocodile Minas Gerais was eating dinosaurs
Montefeltro found that this type of species of crocodile had records not
only in Triangulo Mineiro, but other species of the group were recorded in
Sao Paulo and Argentina
** Celebrities Rally to Support New Alberta Dinosaur Museum
Alberta may be one step closer to getting a new dinosaur museum, thanks to
the support of celebrities such as Dan Aykroyd and international media
attention brought to the project
** Oldest Bird Was Actually a Dinosaur
Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has
just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes
this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur
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