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** Walking With Dinosaurs
Some wonderful video an time-lapse sequences on YouTube, showing the making
and animatronics of this spectacular stage show
** It'll be a 'frill' a minute for guests at PaleoFest
About 3,500 people who find dinosaurs fascinating will be introduced to the
new guy in town at Burpee Museum's ninth annual PaleoFest
** Dinosaur-sized price tag needed to reopen visitor centre
If you and your kids are itching to see the Colorado Plateau's most famous
wall of fossilized dinosaur bones near Vernal, Utah, you may have to wait
well into the next decade
** Amateurs Find Over 100 Dinosaur Eggs
Three amateur Indian explorers have unearthed more than 100 fossilized eggs
of Cretaceous Era dinosaurs in a remote area in Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh
** Our dinosaur hunters
In broad-brimmed hats and cracked leather boots, they work the dirt looking
for legends - muttaburrasaurus, pterosaur, minmi, sauropod
** The emu walk
Breithaupt, who is curator of the University of Wyoming Geological Museum,
said watching emus and studying their tracks have given him a few clues
about a mysterious dinosaur species from the middle Jurassic, 165 million
years ago
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** Europe's First Stegosaurus Boosts Pangaea Theory
A Stegosaurus fossil has been discovered in Europe, marking the first time
the famous plated dinosaur has been found outside of North America
** Birdlike dinosaur boasted opposable fingers
Chalk up another evolutionary first for dinosaurs - Bambiraptor evolved
opposable fingers 75 million years ago, long before our ancestors developed
opposable thumbs
** Dinosaur Dig opportunity for University groups
Bob Simon operates a small dinosaur dig in the Jurassic-age, Morrison
Formation, on a private ranch in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming
** Another Dinosaur Dig opportunity for University groups
The Utah Geological Survey
** A Rip-Snorting Good Yarn - Book Review
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