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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 )

**  Museum Makes No Bones about Restoring Dinosaurs to Original Form
Like Wyoming, its neighbour to the north, Colorado has its own facility 
devoted to restoring dinosaurs to their original form, the Rocky Mountain 
Dinosaur Resource Centre

**  Dinosaur skeleton to be assembled
Visitors to the Dinosaur Isle Museum will be able watch experts build the 
vertebra of an Iguanodon, which roamed the earth 130 million years ago

**  $100,000 dinosaur robot stolen from Mexico exhibition
A remote-controlled dinosaur robot worth about 100,000 Australian dollars 
(£55,600) has been stolen from a Walking With Dinosaurs show in Mexico

**  Discovery Brings Dinosaurs Roaring to Life
Researchers have made incredible leaps in the last year or two, learning 
previously unknown details about how the giant creatures were born, smelled, 
thought, acted and more

**  City May Lose Dinosaur Museum
The Highlands Prehistoric Museum, with its impressive T. rex skeleton and 
other dinosaur fossils, may soon be leaving Cookeville, Tennessee
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**  Study heats up dinosaur metabolism debate
In an article recently published in PLoS ONE , Pontzer and his colleagues 
utilized two biomechanical methods to predict the metabolic demands of 14 
different species of dinosaurs

**  Raptor feet provide clues to dinosaur killing techniques
By studying how talons vary in length and curvature of the claws, and 
comparing that with how different raptors kill their prey, researchers at 
Montana State University are hoping to get new insights into how dinosaurs 
with similar feet hunted and ate

**  Dinosaur evidence pops up
Veatch's game plan is to study the tracks, including one he believes may be 
the cast of Ankylosaurus, and enter the data into the scientific record

**  Former reptile wrangler wins awards for fossil photos
The Triceratops, originally identified as a Torosaurus in the Dinosaur Hall 
at MSU's Museum of the Rockies, is part of a research project examining the 
dramatic changes in skull structure that can occur as a dinosaur matures
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**  Horned dinosaur fossils found in Japan for first time
The Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in Sanda, Hyogo 
Prefecture, said fossils of a horned dinosaur were discovered in the lower 
layer of the Sasayama group from the Early Cretaceous Period in the 
prefectural city of Sasayama

**  Poor Sue may have starved to death
The holes in the dinosaurs' jaws were made by a parasite called 
Trichomonas - yes, a relative of that Trichomonas, since you ask. In birds 
and dinosaurs it leads to a nasty infection of the mouth, with unpleasant 
cheesy discharge

**  Fossil rustling a 'huge international problem' says palaeontologist
The fossilised iguanodon footprint was hacked out of the limestone slab 
where it had lain in a Dorset quarry and spirited away by an illicit 
collector

**  Girl hits pay dirt on a fossil hunt with her family
On Saturday, just the second time the newly named Dinosaur Park, south of 
Laurel, was open to the public, fourth-grader Gabrielle Block stumbled on a 
tail bone from a carnivore thought to be more than 100 million years old
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**  Palaeontologists moving bones from southern Utah
Palaeontologists have begun moving parts of a rich collection of dinosaur 
bones uncovered recently in southern Utah

**  Walking among dinosaurs
A month after his discovery, Li delivered the fossil to the Chinese Academy 
of Geological Sciences in Beijing, where palaeontologists were also stumped

**  Dig up a dinosaur at Queensland Museum South Bank
Step back millions of years for a prehistoric holiday adventure as 
Queensland Museum South Bank launches I Dig Dinos

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