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** Wooden dinosaur dung and gone
Fossilised dung may not have proved a popular choice for a village statue so
how about a wooden dinosaur instead?
** UMPI receives dinosaur bones
The bones - a tibia, or leg bone, from a hadrosaur "duck-billed" dinosaur
and a partial triceratops skull - weigh in at about 200 pounds each
** Dino-sale doubted
Somewhere behind a pink Barbie pedal car, a vintage Coca-Cola vending
machine and a well-used Honda lawnmower, a Tyrannosaurus rex may be lurking
in Hicksville
** Saving a critical resource for Arizona and the world
A rock formation known as the "Chinle Escarpment" cuts across the park, and
since 1906 scientists have discovered countless dinosaur fossils and other
paleontological deposits there, as well as nationally significant
archeological sites like ruins and petroglyphs from the ancient Pueblo
Indians
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** Bill would make Tyrannosaurus rex a state symbol
Though another dinosaur, the triceratops, is the official state fossil,
South Dakota has no officially designated dinosaur, said Sen. Stan
Adelstein, R-Rapid City, the bill's prime sponsor
** Ancient monster tsunami mixed fossils
The 300-foot-tall tsunami - an aftereffect of the giant meteor impact that
some scientists think killed off the dinosaurs - scrambled fossils and rock
and has made the event very hard to date, said Timothy Lawton, head of
NMSU's geology department
** Other Fossil News: Paleontologists make 'find of the century' in the
Messel Pit
While excavating two years ago in a former open-pit mine near the town of
Messel (15 km south of Frankfurt), two paleontology students came across the
fossilized remains of an animal, which could not be identified until it was
taken back to the lab and further analyzed
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