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** Dinosaur eggs may nest at Kansas University
It could be sunnyside up for Lawrence and Kansas University curators, if a
pair of crowd-pleasing dinosaur eggs from China find their home here
** Move afoot in Austin to save famous dinosaur tracks
One of the Texas Memorial Museum's dinosaur attractions is a 30-foot-long
limestone "trackway" - the first definitive discovery of the footprints of a
sauropod, or plant-eating dinosaur, in mud that after millions of years
turned to rock
** Baby dinosaur crawled like humans
The oldest embryos ever discovered reveal that some early dinosaurs crawled
on all fours before learning to stand upright.
** Dinosaur Trail helping attract more tourists
The Montana Dinosaur Trail promotion program is being credited with bringing
hundreds more tourists to Montana dinosaur museums and discovery sites
** Mystery of dinosaur eggs solved
State-of-the-art technology has allowed scientists to find out about some
tiny dinosaurs who were about to hatch from their eggs 190m years ago
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** Fossils by the sea - Northern California offers rich rewards for those
who hunt the ultimate antiques
He chipped a ring around the dark brown knob of fossilized vertebrae, easing
it out of the rock where it had been resting for several million years
** Dino fans flock to see Tyrone soar
An enormous, teeth-baring dinosaur has descended on London, but instead of
running for cover, city residents are vying for a glimpse of the monster
** More Fossil News: New ichthyosaur fossil given to the Natural History
Museum
The remains of an ichthyosaur unearthed in a chalk quarry in Barrington,
Cambridgeshire, have been donated to the Natural History Museum
** Hong Kong dinosaur show draws record crowds
The exhibition of the giant fossils from two museums in China has attracted
more than 100 000 visitors a day to the Cityplaza mall, making it the city's
most successful exhibition ever
** Fossils fuel the Rocky Mountain 'dinosaur highway'
A road trip to the fabled national parks of the West can be interwoven with
stops along the dinosaur trail, where families can see dino-rich museums and
dig sites - and perhaps even try being paleontologists for a day
** Want to figure out the sex of a dinosaur? Don't rely on science
A team, led by Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State, reported earlier
this month that it found a layer of medullary bone inside the leg bones of a
tyrannosaurus rex in Montana
** Fossil poachers grow bolder on federal lands
Barbara Beasley was the first person called to investigate when three
suspicious men were stopped on federal land in remote northwest Nebraska
** Of Interest to Fossil Hunters
Pangea Institute announces that Florida Keys Community College has accepted
their proposal to offer a new course on Florida Paleontology designed by
their award winning curriculum development team.
** Dinosaur Dazzles
Another interesting by-product of the dryosaur's appearance at the Auckland
Museum is how many adults believed it was a real dinosaur.
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