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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 )

**  Dinosaur find shows early social behaviour
The fossilized remains of six young dinosaurs found together in a "nursery" 
at a site in China show these animals had started forming social groups much 
earlier than previously thought

**  Single toe bone to major dino display
This is the first time this dinosaur has been displayed in North America and 
it's the most complete skeleton known for the Therizinosaur sickle-claw

**  February trial date scheduled for T. rex lawsuit
Tinker, excavated north of Belle Fourche in the summer of 1998, was thought 
to be the first nearly complete skeleton of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex 
ever found

**  Hey! there's a Dinosaur in my garden!
Russell Batten has completed a 14ft high model of a Baryonyx, a British 
dinosaur which roamed Suffolk during the Jurassic period, more than 145 
million years ago

**  N.M. Fossilized Tracks Gain Protection
Permian-period trackways of insects, amphibians and reptiles are found in 
sedimentary rocks throughout the Robledo Mountains

**  Dar wants dinosaurs' fossils back
It is believed that between 1909 and 1913, about 250 tonnes of dinosaur 
bones were discovered at Tendaguru, north of Lindi
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**  Excitement of Burpee's Jane could be repeated
More important bones of Homer, a juvenile triceratops, and Petey, a 
yet-to-be-identified meat-eating dinosaur, were found near the Jane site in 
Hell Creek, Montana

**  A dinosaur dig in Maryland
The developer of an industrial park on the site has donated 7 1/2 acres of 
the 700-acre Muirkirk property for a public dinosaur preserve, complete with 
ancient tree species and an exposed layer of clay that has yielded up bits 
of dinosaurs for more than a century

**  Expedition Mongolia blog
Drs Dave Eberth and Francois Therrien of Tyrrell and Darla Zelenitsky of the 
University of Calgary are sending in blogs via satellite about every other 
or every third day directly from the Mongolian desert regarding the 
excavations and research that is currently occurring

**  Tiny dinosaur was ready to fly
The tiny tot, dubbed Mahakala omnogovae, was unearthed in the southern Gobi 
Desert region in Mongolia

**  Bringing dinosaurs to life
By chance in 1982, he met prominent palaeontologist Philip Currie while 
teaching high school students to rappel and rock climb in a Canadian 
national park

**  Could insects have devastated dinosaurs?
Bugs infected with diseases and parasites could have devastated dinosaur 
populations, and insects also impacted plant food sources, according to an 
upcoming book by Corvallis scientists George Poinar Jr. and Roberta Poinar, 
whose research served as the inspiration for "Jurassic Park."

**  Dinosaur extinction linked to asteroid clash
The extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a 
collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt almost 100 million 
years earlier, scientists have revealed

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it.
Marvin Selnes, Sioux Falls, SD

Thank You for the excellent coverage you've given my ongoing research.
Best regards,
Marilyn D. Wegweiser, Ph.D., Affiliate Faculty, Idaho Museum of Natural 
History 

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