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** Dinosaur Museum in Bid to Bring Rare Triceratops Skeleton to Britain
Dorchester's award winning Dinosaur Museum has received an offer from an
anonymous backer to bid for a rare skeleton of Triceratops that is being
auctioned by Christies in Paris on April 16th.
** Feature Site - The world's 7 deadliest dinosaurs
The king walked on two legs over a vast territory in western North America
at the end of the Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago
** Natural history searches for a home in Cookeville
Jerry Jacene is currently working on six Dimorphodons (flying reptiles of
the Jurassic period), eight skeleton mounts of Stegoceras (small,
dome-headed dinosaur), one flesh restoration (sculpture) of the stegoceras
and two flesh restorations of a Jurassic shark, Hybodus
** Secret 'dino bugs' revealed
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France,
produces an intense, high-energy light that can pierce just about any
material, revealing its inner structure
** Dinosaur Expert to Speak at Penn State Altoona
Dr. Matthew C. (Matt) Lamanna is an assistant curator of vertebrate
paleontology at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History
** Dinosaur footprints found in Turkmenistan
Geologists in eastern Turkmenistan have discovered more than one hundred
fossilized dinosaur footprints, believed to be some 145 million years old
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** Dinosaurs, Digs, and Careers
Swarthmore graduate Tyler Lyson '06 first made headlines, when he was 17,
for the discovery of a mummified hadrosaur, a sixty-seven million year old
dinosaur
** Party With a T Rex
The opening of a Dinosaur Lab takes the Natural History Museum's First
Fridays to another level
** Montanan dinosaur off to Houston for year-long exhibit
Malta's mummified dinosaur, Leonardo, has been shipped off to Texas to star
in a year-long exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
** Volunteers needed to aid palaeontologists
For 13 years, Sharon Walkington has been a dinosaur hunter, surveying in the
field, digging up dino bones, preparing them in the lab
** Other Fossils news - Brazil finds prehistoric "Sea Warrior" crocodile
Brazilian palaeontologists said the discovery of the fossil of Guarinisuchus
munizi, dubbed "Sea Warrior," also engendered a new theory on the migration
of prehistoric crocodiles from Africa to South and then North America
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** Dinosaur fossil found in bus search
Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a
suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru
** Ocean mud yields secrets of past Earth impacts
In 1995, members of Paquay's team pointed out high levels of the lighter
osmium isotope - associated with extraterrestrial material - in ocean
sediment laid down around the time of the impact that killed off the
dinosaurs 65 million years ago
** Giant step ahead as experts find big cluster of dinosaur footprints
Chinese and German experts have said they had unearthed a large group of
fossilized dinosaur tracks, the largest cluster ever found in China, in the
north-western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
** Dinosaur that lured mates with frill
Scientists have discovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Mexico
whose large neck frill and three giant horns helped it attract mates and
fight predators on a jungle beach 72 million years ago
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** Blog of Interest - Paleontological Profiles: Robert Bakker
Dr. Robert Bakker is one of the most famous palaeontologists working today,
an iconoclastic figure who has played a leading role of rehabilitating our
understanding of dinosaurs from the inception of the "Dinosaur Renaissance"
through the present
** Dino-Era Feathers Trapped in Ancient Amber
Seven feathers that either belonged to a non-avian dinosaur or an early bird
have been discovered encased in amber in a remarkably vivid state of
preservation
** Kaiparowits Basin Project
On May 22-23, 2009, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument will be
hosting (along with other partners to be announced later) a meeting in Saint
George, Utah, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Kaiparowits Basin
Project
** Winner of the "Nickname the Baby Apatosaurus"
Contest Sponsored by WTAE-TV, thepittsburghchannel.com, and Internet
Broadcasting Systems
** 2008 Dinosaur Field School
Cincinnati Museum Centre is still accepting registration for it's 2008
Dinosaur Field School in the Bighorn Basin of Montana
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