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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 )

**  Dire Straits Dinosaur and Devil Frog Unveiled
The animals are featured in an exhibit that honours palaeontologist and lead 
discoverer of the fossils, David Krause, Distinguished Service Professor in 
the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook

**  Lived on 'Neverland'-Like Island
When Hungarian baron Franz Nopcsa claimed that his sister in 1895 found 
bones belonging to dwarf dinosaurs on his family's Transylvanian estate, 
many thought his claims were on par with Count Dracula fiction

**  Tyrannosaurus Sex
Locomotive worked closely with several scientists, including Ken Carpenter, 
the chief preparator and curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Denver 
Museum of Nature and Science, and Kristy Curry Rogers, assistant professor 
of vertebrate palaeontology from Macalester College in Minnesota

**  Montana college students chosen to study dinosaur eggs in China
Although the eggs may have been laid by a carnivorous dinosaur, it remains 
unclear why they are so porous
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**  China leads the world in dinosaur discoveries
Whether you are looking for marine reptiles or birds or dinosaurs, or 
whatever, China is developing so fast right now it is staggering; I'd say 
that right now it is number one in the world for most major fossil finds.

**  Dinosaur App for Your iPhone
Dinosaurs: American Museum of Natural History Collections contains more than 
800 images from the Museum's archive, woven together to create a striking 
image of the world's most famous dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus rex

**  Dinosaur footprints lost as rock face crumbles
About 300 dinosaur footprints believed to be around 65 million years old 
were lost in Bolivia when the rock wall that contained them cleaved off and 
crumbled

**  Decline Of The Dinos
Dr. Mark Goodwin in an interview with avian neuroscientist Dr. Kirsten 
"Kiki" Sanford, for the podcast: Dr. Kiki's science hour

**  Dinosaur footprints found in east China city
After a three-month excavation, more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints have 
been uncovered on a 2,600-square-meter slope in a gully of Huanghua town in 
Zhucheng City
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**  A new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences provides yet more evidence that birds did not descend from 
ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, experts say, and continues to challenge 
decades of accepted theories about the evolution of flight

**  Dinosaur site celebrates 10 years
It's been 10 years since an overturned rock on Sheldon Johnson's farm gave 
St. George a bigger place on the national map and the Dinosaur Discovery 
Site Museum's new exhibit shows just how much progress was made since that 
fateful discovery

**  Smashed asteroids may be related to dinosaur killer
Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the 
collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for 
killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago
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**  Mohawks, stripes: Dinosaurs had them before designers
Some dinosaurs had russet-coloured feathers and one jazzy specimen had a 
Mohawk crest and stripes, researchers say in the first reports to 
confidently assign colours to dinosaurs

**  Dinosaurs Sadly Extinct Before Invention Of Bazooka
More than 65 million years ago, a cataclysmic event drove a majority of the 
Earth's species into extinction, and tragically, wiped out the last of the 
dinosaurs long before bazookas could be invented and used on them (satire)

**  Paleontological Data Analysis Symposium
In association with the International Paleontological Congress (IPC3, 28 
June - 3 July 2010, London

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