In Dinosaurnews today:
www.dinosaurnews.org

 * Rex appeal: the literary attraction of dinosaur erotica
Dino erotica sits comfortably in the context of Greek mythology, where
interspecies mingling was quite the thing. 

* Community College breaks ground with new palaeontology program
Both the program and the dinosaur — named "Walter" after Thompson-Ellis’
great dane — will likely bring students and researchers from around the
country to Craig to study the bones. 

* Palaeontologists lament loss of BC’s fossil heritage with Site C dam
The Peace River canyon is considered one of the top ten places in Canada for
dinosaur tracks, but northern BC palaeontologists say the tracks and other
signs of ancient life will be gone forever, once work begins on the Site C
dam on the Peace River.  

* Dinosaurs got high on ancient psychedelic fungus
New discoveries suggest that fearsome dinosaurs might have been made much
mellower through their consumption of ancient psychedelics. 

* Help Us Excavate a Dinosaur Bonebed in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin
In 2014, in a remote and barren corner of the Bighorn Basin, NJSM
palaeontologists and participants in the annual Palaeontology Field School
made a remarkable discovery.

* Building a home for dinosaur fossils with extra opal bling
In the north-west of New South Wales, opal miners have been digging up
opalised dinosaur fossils for years, it seems that it's one of the best-kept
secrets in the country. 

* Int'l team studying dinosaur growth patterns in Spain
An international team is studying the growth patterns of dinosaurs using
their ancient footprints in the Las Sereas de Quintanilla de las Viñas
fossil beds in Spain's northern Burgos province, where many traces of the
prehistoric animals are found. 

* Other Fossil News - Ancient Scorpion Had Feet, May Have Walked Out of
Ocean
The fossils suggest that ancient scorpions crawled out of the seas and onto
land earlier than thought, according to the researchers who analyzed them. 

* When Camarasaurus Went to Texas
It turns out that in 1936, chief fossil preparator, Norman H. Boss, was sent
to Dallas as part of the Smithsonian’s participation in the Texas Centennial
Exposition. 

* Dino Hunt Canada shows off nation’s long history of prehistoric beast
discovery
You may not know this, but Canada is currently in a golden age of dinosaur
discoveries. 

* Local palaeontologist gives first-hand look at dinosaur bones
Forir and a group of amateur palaeontologists uncovered portions of the
fossilized skeleton of Henry, a 7-ton triceratops, two summers ago in
Wyoming and negotiated with a rancher to bring the dinosaur back to the
Missouri Institute of Natural Science.

* Long-necked Jurassic 'dragon' discovered in China
Qijianglong (pronounced "CHI-jyang-lon") is about 15 metres in length and
lived about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic. 

* Save Dippy
Natural History Museum to replace its diplodocus with a blue whale prompts a
#savedippy Twitter campaign. 

* Planned Jurassica dinosaur museum could bring in £20m
Bournemouth University is conducting an economic study to determine the
attraction's connections with other sectors of the economy and its likely
impact. 

* Other Fossil News - New Triassic Reptile Discovered in Tanzania
A team of palaeontologists has described a new genus and species of
archosaur that lived in what is today southern Tanzania during the early
Middle Triassic, approximately 247 million years ago.

* The Wrists of Birds Reveal Evolution Undoing Itself
A recent study of the wrists of modern birds finds that a bone lost from
dinosaurs for tens of millions of years reappeared when dinosaurs evolved
into birds and took flight. 

* Doubt cast on global firestorm generated by dino-killing asteroid
Pioneering new research has debunked the theory that the asteroid that is
thought to have led to the extinction of dinosaurs also caused vast global
firestorms that ravaged planet Earth.

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