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** Scientists make dinosaur discovery in Queensland
There's been another big dinosaur discovery in western Queensland, and
scientists are calling it one of the most successful yet
** Feature Site: The Torosaurus Project at the Yale Peabody Museum
The life-size bronze statue of the Torosaurus latus will tower two stories
over museum visitors
** Museum to Hold "What's in the Basement?" Day
Also on display for the first time is a full skeletal layout of the actual
bones of Falcarius utahensis, a unique dinosaur whose remains from
south-eastern Utah
** Dinosaur tracks on a desert shore
On a warm summer evening in southern Utah, palaeontologist Martin Lockley is
doing what he does best - searching the desert for fossil footprints
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** Colossal cast
A full-size cast of Sue - who measures 42 feet from head to tail - arrived
in Albuquerque Monday and will go on display at the museum Saturday
** Biologists Challenge Conventional Dinosaur Theories
It was once believed that dinosaurs were simply oversized crocodiles, huge
lumbering reptiles that took decades to reach full maturity
** Travel billions of years in Uintah
There are few places in this world were people can look back in time and
view the entire world's history in rock - Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic and
Precambrian periods or roughly 4.5 billion years - spread over just a few
miles of road
** Jane: dinosaur, fossil ... teacher?
Jane is motivating students to learn and teachers, for their part, are
helping the process by incorporating the archaeological find in lessons
ranging from reading and writing to math and science
** 65th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology
October 19-22, 2005
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