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** Two hundred birthday of dinosaur man
The 200th birthday of the Lancashire-born scientist who coined the word
"dinosaur" has been celebrated at London's Natural History Museum.
** Family enjoying vacation reveals rare reptile fossil
Last month, a Virginia mother and her 8-year-old twins uncovered what every
camper dreams of finding: the skeleton of a previously unknown creature
** Dinosaur Hunters race against Fundy tide to rescue rare bones
Palaeontologists hope to unearth a complete set of bones from a
200-million-year-old dinosaur before fall tides from the Bay of Fundy damage
the site
** Jurassic Super Giants
Opening at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on August
7th. See also the Age of Super Giants Lecture Series
** Scarborough's world class geology collection
With over 5500 fossils and 3000 minerals, the strengths of the collection
include: numerous type specimens, which were the first of their kind ever to
be described and one finest collections of Middle Jurassic fossil plants in
the country
** Dinosaur stampede added to heritage list
The world's only recorded dinosaur stampede has been added to Australia's
new National Heritage List
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** 90-million-year-old Dino Tracks Found On Resort Island
During fieldwork conducted throughout the month of June, an international
team of Canadian and Croatian palaeontologists and geologists, led by Dr.
Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and Mr.
Jakov Radovcic of the Croatian Museum of Natural History in Zagreb, found 90
million year old dinosaur tracks and trackways on the island of Hvar,
Croatia
** Pterosaur discovery on display
The municipal government of Midoricho, Hyogo Prefecture, is displaying a
pterosaur fossil--the first one excavated in the Kansai region
** Feature Site: GIANTS: African Dinosaurs at the Garfield Park
Conservatory
This major exhibition premiers the first-ever display of new African
dinosaurs, renders skeletons as garden sculptures and immerses visitors in a
prehistoric world full of wonder
** Europe's Largest Dinosaur Rises from Spanish Fields
Farmers in Riodeva cleared stones from their almond orchards for
generations, never dreaming they were tossing aside dinosaur bones - and
laying a trail for one of Spain's greatest fossil finds.
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