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** Big time gizzards
In India a young army Captain of the East India Company, William Sleeman was
the first one to find a cache of large bones in 1828 in the Jabalpur
Cantonment
** Other Fossil News: World's oldest Rodent fossil found in Thar desert
The Geolgical Survey of India on Thursday claimed to have found the worlds
oldest Rodent fossil from the Thar desert in Rajasthan recently
** Feature Site: Sea Monsters
Meet the ancient reptilian creatures that have inspired terrifying tales in
cultures the world over
** Not Dinos But: Found! Turtle from dinosaur age
The first prehistoric creature that resembles a modern day turtle has been
discovered, by UK researchers in a stone quarry
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** Continent's oldest bird tracks found near Moab
Utah's state paleontologist, Dr. James Kirkland, said at the site in the
desert mountains near Moab that the tracks "date at the same age as one of
the most important discoveries of this century in terms of dinosaurs and
birds," a time of change among the earth's creatures
** Local Scientist Disputes Dinosaur-Bird Link
A Durban scientist who buried a dolphin and exhumed it a year later to
experiment with its carcass has used the exercise to challenge the theory
that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs
** Where the dinosaurs rule
On the first afternoon here, fossil hunters struck out across the parched
sand to the rock outcrops along the bleached brown ridges and down into the
broad basin
** Scientists Make Several New Dinosaur Finds
Audio with Peter Makovicky, assistant curator, paleontology, the Field
Museum, Chicago
** Dactyl Delights
A review of "Dactyls! Dragons of the Air"
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