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Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine 
with bite!

This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the 
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org )

**  New dino tracks found
A small town has again yielded big scientific finds as historians recently 
announced a new collection of dinosaur fossils and footprints

**  World's Heaviest Dinosaur Found In Utah
Scientists in Utah have uncovered what appears to be a new species of 
dinosaur that was likely the largest and heaviest armoured dinosaur ever to 
walk the planet

**  Stony Brook Unveils Replica Of Dinosaur
The skeleton, nicknamed "Stony Bones," is made up of a composite of 
specimens that were collected on the South African island of Madagascar by a 
team of Stony Brook University palaeontologists led by Dr. David Krause, 
distinguished service professor in the department of anatomical sciences

**  Robotic 'big claw' rises to make a killing for museum
Over and over, Barry would rear up on his massive hind legs, bare rows of 
needle-sharp teeth, and then pounce at the robot fish slithering across his 
plywood plinth

**  Boning up on history
Crates of two skeleton casts of meat-eating dinosaurs called dromaeosaurs 
were unpacked in the paleontology laboratory in the North Dakota Heritage 
Centre in Bismarck
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**  Jane, the Dinosaur, to make documentary debut
Producer Dave Monk said the film will be shown on the Discovery and Science 
channels in more than 50 countries

**  Not Your Father's T-Rex
Recent discoveries, like the giganatosaurus - bigger and badder than T-Rex - 
are now sold as common playthings, while once-obscure dinosaurs, like the 
pachycephalosaurus, are featured in children's books

**  As brittle as its bones
The National Park Service can only watch as a visitor centre that was built 
over a dinosaur bone quarry slowly splits apart, making do with patchwork 
repairs as the building crumbles.

**  Signs of feeding prehistoric birds found in Alaska
Scientists found fossilized depressions and footprints in Alaska's Denali 
National Park and Preserve in what is believed to be the first evidence of 
prehistoric wading birds probing for food

**  New dinosaur species to be named after Hogwarts
A replica of the Dracorex Hogwartsia dinosaur skull is on exhibit at the 
Pennsylvania State Museum, which is located in Harrisburg. More

**  Scientists Show Dinosaur Fingernail Fossil
Scientists say the fossil of a dinosaur fingernail found in Brazil provides 
new support for the theory of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and 
birds

**  Dinosaur Eggs and Babies
The study of the earliest known dinosaur embryos will be the subject of a 
free public presentation to be offered at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 1 at the Sam 
Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman.

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Best regards,
Marilyn D. Wegweiser, Ph.D., Affiliate Faculty, Idaho Museum of Natural 
History 

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