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** Audio File: Fossil find 'oldest land animal''
From the BBC, the Millipede discovery
** The Patagonian Experience
At Bonanza, the remains of a huge sauropod dinosaur - a long necked,
long-tailed plant-eater - were visible on the surface, and I was eager to
have the team excavate there.
** Feature Site: Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
Aside from displaying the bones of Haddonfield's Hadrosaurus foulkii, the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences contains a large collection of
other important fossils and natural history exhibits
** Show is a gem for kids who dig dinosaurs
They are using a unique opportunity to unlock the curiosity of
schoolchildren and introduce them to the wonders of geology, palaeontology
and gemology
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** Snake Ancestors Lost Limbs on Land
Since the 19th century naturalists have debated whether the ancestors to
modern snakes lost their limbs at sea or on land
** Oldest fossil found in drawer
Scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest known insect fossil -
a 400-million-year-old set of jaws lying unrecognised for nearly a century
in a lonely drawer in the Natural History Museum in London
** Clever Like a Pterosaur
Larry Witmer, a palaeontologist at Ohio University in Athens, and his
colleagues examined two unusually intact pterosaur skulls, one from
crow-size Rhamphorhynchus, the other from the eagle-size Anhanguera
** A monster crowd
They check out Sue, dash to the Dino Lab to see a display of toy dinosaurs,
try to climb on a fossilized dinosaur femur and then run out of the room to
see a three-story display of dinosaurs and running water
** Tour Puts Grandchildren And Grandparents In The Thick Of Dinosaur
Exploration In Colorado
The day spent at the Mygarr-Moore Quarry begins with a hike on the "Trail
Through Time," an area of the quarry that appears to be an ancient watering
hole for the dinosaurs, containing 145-million-year-old fragments of
dinosaur skeletons
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