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** Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur
tale
The fossilized skeleton of a small crocodile relative excavated last year at
Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona throws a wrench into theories of
how and where the dinosaurs arose more than 210 million years ago at the end
of the Triassic Period
** Russian settlement still reveals traces of dinosaurs
Farmers and garden owners uncover bones of mammoths and dinosaurs on a
regular basis
** Fiercest dinosaur had sore points
The baddest, boldest dinosaurs on the block were sickly beasts, frequently
with unsightly sores, tumours and other signs of disease
** Mike brings dinosaurs back to life
Mr Dawson helped set up the National Dinosaur Museum in Canberra in 1991,
The T-rex Hall at Albury in 1993 and a fossil exhibition in Mittagong in
1993
** Early mammal's bite packed quite a punch
Sorting through boxes of fossils collected 14 years ago, a Canadian PhD
student discovered the deadly, poisonous bite of a 60 million-year-old
mammal the size of a mouse
** New dinosaur robot set to take toy world by storm
The prehistoric pet robot has three mood levels - hunter, cautious and
playful - and 40 pre-programmed functions - or buyers can just let him run
wild
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** Bozeman dino hall makes debut
Supplied by Montana's abundance of dinosaur fossils and fueled by the
museum's cutting-edge research, the hall made its public debut Saturday,
emerging from the shadows of a former storage facility as one of the world's
premier dinosaur displays
** Buried Treasure
With the help of new fossil discoveries and new technologies, scientists are
learning how dinosaurs lived - and died
** Tourists join palaeontologists in dinosaur hunt
The Queensland Museum and a Winton-based group have organised the dig, near
where the bones of Australia's largest dinosaur Elliot were discovered six
years ago
** Not Dinos But: 500 million years of errors - Brachiopod shells record
shadow of arms race in ancient oceans
A study of fossils from the Paleozoic Era, collected across the world,
reveals that ancient brachiopods were little bothered by predators
** Fossil Legends of the First Americans
How did ancient Native Americans explain dinosaur fossils? When people
discovered the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals that no one had seen
alive, did they speculate about them?
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