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** Dinosaur eggs mislabelled for years
The eggs belonged to a small theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur, closely
linked to birds -- making the fossil the first known nest of its kind
** Cambodia - Dinosaur images noticed in temple ruin
The reader who was visiting the area noticed very distinct and clear images
that seem to depict a "Stegosaurus" indicating that this creature might well
have survived up until the Khmer era in the region
** Dispute halts research on dinosaur tracks
Once supportive of the project, Loertscher, who gave approximately 50
track-covered slabs to the Idaho Museum of Natural History, has hired an
attorney and threatened to sue the university if they're not returned
** Carnival Of The Dinosaurs
Feature site from The Guardian newspaper
** Museum's dinosaur exhibit probes the past, stirs the imagination
Seven types of dinosaurs will come to life inside, including the
Albertosaurus, Deinonychus, Maiasaura, Pachycephalosaurus, Apatosaurus,
Pteranodon and Euoplocephalus
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** Researchers discover bones of armoured dinosaur
The article written by Kenneth Carpenter of the Denver Museum of Nature and
Science with the assistance of Jeff Bartlett, John Bird and Reese Barrick of
the CEU Museum, reports that bones of a partial skull and post-cranial
skeleton of a new large nodosaurid anklylosaur were found in the Cedar
Mountain Formation southeast of Price
** Missing dinosaur link found in Argentina
It is an omnivore - in other words it ate everything (plants and meat) -
which is the missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and giant
four-footed herbivores
** On the trail of dinosaurs
In his introduction to the audience about palaeontology he said that he was
going nowhere near the famed 'Nessie' and that he would stick to the facts
** Hunting fossils in the Uinta Basin
His years of researching, studying and collecting in fossil beds in Wyoming
and Western Montana in the late 1800s earned him praise in the field of
palaeontology, but he continued to toil in relative obscurity in the eyes of
the public
** The dinosaur hunters: first fossil discoveries
The name "dinosaur" was coined by the first curator of the National History
Museum in London, Richard Owen, in 1842
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** Dinosaur footprints, fossils found in central Peru
Hundreds of footprints and the fossilised remains of various prehistoric
animals, probably dinosaurs that lived 120 million years ago, have been
discovered in the Ancash region of central Peru
** Dinosaur hunters unearth 48 new prehistoric species
Palaeontologists claim to have unearthed 48 new prehistoric species
including dinosaurs, from cliffs of the Isle of Wight dubbed as Britain's
Jurassic Park
** Not Dinos But - Museum unveils Brooks Range ichthyosaur discovered in
1950
Officials say the fossil sat in the Brooks Range for almost 210 million
years before it was discovered in 1950, eventually arriving in Fairbanks
** Dinosaurs: How long did they live?
Because of annual variation in temperature or the availability of food,
periodically bone growth would slow down, and a thin layer of avascular bone
would form a ring or "growth line" in much the same way that tree trunks do
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