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** Dinosaur museum is itself threatened
The shortfalls have forced the academy over the last 15 years to shed many
of the people who care for its 25 million specimens of fish, moss, coral,
diatoms, dinosaur bones, birds, mammals, molluscs and plants
** Grant helps top dinosaur expert develop advanced palaeontology lab
The federal government, through the Canadian Research Chair program, has
given Dr Philip J Currie of the University of Alberta $1.4 million over
seven years to study the prehistoric beasts
** Not Dinos But: Rock marks record water scorpion
The tracks left by a giant water scorpion as it dragged its great bulk
across a beach 330 million years ago have been discovered in Scottish rock
** Oldest bird had dinosaur feet
An exceptionally well preserved new fossil reveals a foot and skull that
more closely resemble those of a group of two-legged predatory dinosaurs
called the known as dromeosaurs, than modern birds
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** Dinosaur tracks uncovered east of Pueblo
Although the tracks are on public access land, their exact location is not
being revealed in order to protect them until the water raises
** Dinosaur takes centre stage at Ohio Supercomputer Centre
The Ohio Supercomputer Centre (OSC) will take a journey 66 million years
back in time on December 1, to showcase Jane, a Tyrannosaurus Rex exhibit at
the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL
** This gorilla of a film is blockbuster of the year
I'm still marvelling at a scene where a herd of brachiosaurus stampede as
they are pursued by predators with teeth the size of carving knives
** Delaware Museum of Natural History and Conectiv Energy present Dr. Jack
Horner in a special, three-part event on Saturday, January 21, 2006
** Volunteers Needed for Dinosaur Ridge
Volunteer tour guides are needed to teach people about the paleontological,
geological, natural resources and history of Dinosaur Ridge
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