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** Dinosaur fossils seized in WA raid
The 20-tonne seizure includes fish fossils from China's Liaoning Province up
to 130 million years old. Liaoning Province is regarded as one the best
spots in the world for dinosaur research
** Dinosaur's name: Yvonne
The alamosaurus that crashes out of the Dinosphere is named Yvonne after a
lead contributor to The Children's Museum exhibit
** Marble Hill dinosaur museum is unique
As the museum grows, the board has plans to move the displays upstairs,
leaving the first floor as a working lab to study the fragments being
unearthed in a geological dig in nearby Glenallen
** Late-blooming author rewrites palaeontology
When Mayor's first book, "The First Fossil Hunters: Palaeontology in Greek
and Roman Times" (Princeton University Press), came out four years ago, this
late-blooming outsider with no advanced degrees caused something of a
sensation among high-ranking anthropologists, palaeontologists, geologists
and others
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** Feature Site: The upgraded "New Mexico's Seacoast" exhibit hall
This portion of the exhibit reconstructs the New Mexico of the Late
Cretaceous when the state straddled the western shoreline of a shallow sea
** Not Dinosaurs But: Seclusion on island delayed extinction of mammoths
"This is an important find," said Paul Matheus, a researcher with UAF's
Alaska Quaternary Centre. "It's equivalent to finding a 50-million-year-old
dinosaur, instead of a 65-million-year-old dinosaur
** Dinosaur vandals scheduled for hearing
The three, accused of vandalizing a $4,000 dinosaur statue on display at the
high school March 22, waived their right to a preliminary hearing
** Horn Use in Triceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae )
Triceratops, a common chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous of North America, is known for its cranial ornamentation,
including a single nasal horn and large, paired supraorbital horns
** The 'crowning' of the native New Mexican dinosaur
** 15-month Dinosaurs of Texas exhibit closing with murals, text panels,
and sculpture stands up for sale.
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now filed online
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