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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 )

**  This dinosaur had a Jersey attitude
A paleontological field associate and graduate student at New Jersey City 
University, where he is completing his master's in geology and education, 
Vecchiarelli is also a man on a mission: to turn the 66.5-million-year-old 
Drypto-saurus, one of two Late Cretaceous-era dinosaurs known to have lived 
in what is now New Jersey, into a household name, right up there with Albert 
Einstein, Snooki Polizzi and Route 80

**  Fossilified Jurassic dinosaurs to debut at Shanghai Expo
The two dinosaurs, one is 6.4-meter-long and 2.5-meter-tall Lufengosaurus 
huenei and the other, a 10-meter-long and 4-meter-tall Lufengosaurus magnus, 
both herbivorous dinosaurs, lived in early Jurassic period

**  Rare dinosaur found in Dominguez Canyon
Working under a BLM Colorado paleontological use permit, researcher Kent 
Hups of Westminster, Colo., contacted the BLM last month and showed them 
what could possibly be material from the back of an ankylosaurid (nodosaur) 
dinosaur skull

**  Other Fossil News - Ancient Thick-shelled Turtle Discovered in Coal Mine
The shell, about 3.3 feet (1 meter) across and 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) 
thick, might have protected the turtle against attacks from large 
crocodile-like animals as well as the giant Titanoboa, the world's largest 
snake (about 45-feet long), which would have shared this turtle's 
neighborhood around 60 million years ago
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**  Dinosaur puppet is part science, part performance
Mark Loewen, a paleontologist who was part of the team that discovered the 
dinosaur, said paleontologists and the puppet designer tried to stay as true 
to science as possible when creating the puppet

**  Specimen airlifted from Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dr. Donald Henderson led a field crew in the removal of a juvenile 
Gorgosaurus and the head of a Styracosaurus from their resting places in two 
isolated areas of the park

**  Raider of dinosaur egg fossils gets 3 years
Tomb raider He Hongyan was sentenced to three years in prison and four years 
on probation for stealing dinosaur egg fossils by a court in Xixia county, 
"Home of the Dinosaur" in Central China's Henan province

**  Scientists uncover fossil that shows Velociraptor eating another 
dinosaur
While it is not necessary that Protoceratops was a Velociraptors regular 
prey and the fight between the two dinosaur species could have been a rare 
one, the new fossil discovery suggests the opposite
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**  Dinosaur skull shape changed drastically during growth
University of Michigan paleontologists have claimed that long-necked 
sauropod dinosaur, Diplodocus, went through drastic changes in skull shape 
during normal growth

**  San Diego exhibit highlights brave new world of dinosaur discoveries
There's a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, a large walk-through diorama of a 
Mesozoic forest in China, and fossils that may prove that some dinosaurs 
evolved into birds

**  Renovation work continues on the Dinosaur Discovery Gallery
The central feature of the gallery will be an acrocanthosaurus, a large 
meat-eating dinosaur, in pursuit of two smaller meat-eating dinosaurs and 
two ankylosaurs

**  Agile 'roadrunner' dinosaur fossil discovered in China
Measuring just half a metre long, the fleet-footed theropod named Xixianykus 
zhangi was likely to have used a huge claw to dig for termites and ants
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**  New Dinosaur Discovered in Utah
Scientists believe that the specimen of a new dinosaur species, discovered 
in the Navajo Sandstone in Utah, was buried alive by a collapsing sand dune

**  roamed southern hemisphere: study
In a study, the researchers said they had found a hip bone belonging to a T. 
rex ancestor in Australia, shedding new light on the evolutionary history of 
this group of dinosaurs

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