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**  Macon exhibition explores dinosaurs as social animals
"This is the first time that the museum has had a dinosaur exhibition that
focuses entirely on the social behaviour of dinosaurs," says Nikki Price,
the museum's curator of science

**  The past is on display in downtown Woodland Park
The museum houses towering casts of dinosaur skeletons, as well as some real
bones that were excavated from several western states

**  Dinosaurs Fried Within Hours of Cosmic Collision
Most dinosaurs were incinerated in a matter of hours after an asteroid
impact 65 million years ago kicked up a global rain of broiling debris,
according to a new study

**  No Place for Dinosaurs
Edward Johnson, curator of science at the Staten Island Institute of Arts
and Sciences, said he was unaware of any reported dinosaur track finds on
the island, much of which is covered by sediments and glacial debris that
accumulated long after the dinosaurs became extinct

**  Four-winged birds may have been first fliers
The idea that the earliest birds were four-winged gliders is supported by
the remarkable discovery in 2003 of a small dinosaur named Microraptor,
which had flight feathers on all four limbs
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**  Feature Site: Dinosaur Diamond
The Utah and Colorado Prehistoric Byway includes the Museum of Western
Colorado's Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita

**  Museum expects a dinosaur-size hit
When it opens next month, the $6 million exhibit of juvenile dinosaurs at
The Children's Museum will bring alive the sights, sounds and smells of the
era when such creatures ruled the world

**  Dinosaur footprints cut from rock for move to museum
The fossilised tracks were made by a massive meat-eater called megalosaurus,
which once ran alongside an even bigger herbivorous dinosaur, called
cetiosaurus

**  Zoo building edifice for rex and his dinosaur buddies
Eighteen snarling dinosaurs - all robots - took up residence Wednesday at
the Los Angeles Zoo next to the real-life rhinos and reptiles

**  Penn scientist discovers new dinosaur
A curious piece of bone spotted by a University of Pennsylvania professor
during a horseback ride in southern Montana led to the discovery of a new
dinosaur with a long neck, a whip-like tail and a mysterious extra hole in
its skull

**  Dig up fossils with the Queensland Museum
A host of adventures are coming up in 2004 for dinosaur enthusiasts.

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