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** Fukui museum unearths Japan's dinosaur roots
One February morning, around 30 researchers and workers hammered away at an
excavation site in the middle of sugar cane fields stretching beyond the
horizon in Suranaree, about 260 km northeast of Bangkok
** Dinosaur hunter discusses his excavations
Paleontologist Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago professor and one of
National Geographic magazine's explorers-in-residence, has discovered
dinosaurs on five continents and offered an in-depth account of his
excavations as the season finale of the National Geographic Live Series
** Construction to begin this spring on new dinosaur museum
The County of Grande Prairie agreed on Friday to donate an additional $5
million a new museum designed to showcase the fossils recovered from the
nearby Pipestone Creek site, where a duck-billed dinosaur bone bed lies
** Dinosaur Eggs Brooded Like Birds
The researchers teamed up to study the late Cretaceous era Troodon formosus
fossil eggs, which are very roughly 75 million years old
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** Dinosaur experts gather near Calgary
Dinosaur and fossil enthusiasts from around the world will gather in
Drumheller this weekend for to share their knowledge and expertise at the
sixth annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium
** 'Small Bandit' Carnivorous Dinosaur Found
A new meat-loving dinosaur, "Lonely Small Bandit," has helped fill a big gap
in Madagascar's dinosaur records
** Croc whiskers explain dinosaur behaviour
A new study will help biologists understand how today's animals, as well as
dinosaurs and ancient crocodiles interact with the environment around them
** Fossilised Europasaurus bones discovered in Germany
Paleontologists have uncovered over 28 fossilised bones of a Europasaurus, a
dinosaur named in honour of Europe, found in the Harz region of Germany
** Crowds continue to visit Natural History Museum's Maidstone dinosaur
The plant-eating iguanodon, named as its teeth resemble those of an iguana,
lived around 120 million years ago at a time when Kent was part of a large
subtropical island dominated by wide rivers
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** Dinosaur idol crowned by Museum of Nature
That's right, folks, the nature museum's "Dino Idol" contest wasn't just a
paleontological success, it was a runaway victory for the vegan tail club
swinger, Ankylosaur
** Jurassic Bark: How Sound Design Changed Our Imaginations
The longnecks' bellows are a mix of elephants, cows and donkeys, he says,
though the singing-like clip above is made only from donkeys
** 10 dinosaur museums that'll curdle your DNA
While scientists have yet to resurrect the terrible lizards from mosquito
DNA, there are plenty of museums worldwide that bring humans face to face
with dinosaurs, and not always just their skeletons, in a variety of ways
** Comet, not asteroid, said dinosaur killer
While an asteroid is usually considered the culprit partially responsible
for the extinction of dinosaurs, two U.S. researchers name a comet as chief
suspect
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** Australian Billionaire, Orders 117 Life-Size Dinosaur Robots For Theme
Park
Australian mining tycoon Clive Palmer is ordering dozens of life-size
dinosaur robots from China for his Palmer Coolum Resort - just because he
feels like it
** 20 Years After 'Jurassic Park,' a Dinosaur-Chicken Hybrid Could Soon
Exist
They tried extracting DNA from a Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen, but that turned
out to be as helpful as hiding from a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a flimsy bathroom
** Dinosaur was strong swimmer, doggy-paddle style
Claw marks on a 100-million-year-old riverbed in China reveal how some
dinosaurs doggy-paddled over long distances
** Dinosaur Embryo Graveyard
He was walking in the Lower Lufeng Formation, where some of the first
Chinese dinosaurs were found, when he noticed tiny bones, no bigger than the
lead of a pencil, sticking out from a little hill
** Taiwanese researchers' dinosaur discovery makes Nature's cover
A study on fossil dinosaur embryos conducted by a team that includes several
Taiwanese experts has been chosen as the cover story of an international
scientific journal
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