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**  The Paleo-Diet: Dinosaurs Lose Weight in New Study
To overcome any errors that simplifying these curved organic structures 
might introduce, the scientists developed complex 3-D models of leg bones 
from eight modern animal species -- the giraffe; the white-tailed eagle; the 
American flamingo; the European hedgehog; the common murre, a large bird; 
the rock hyrax, a guinea piglike animal; the Senegal bush baby, a type of 
monkey; and the European polecat, a weasel-like animal

**  What's the Secret of Hadrosaur Skin?
Specimens from almost every dinosaur subgroup have been found with some kind 
of soft tissue preservation, yet, out of all these, the shovel-beaked 
hadrosaurs of the Late Cretaceous are found with skin impressions and casts 
most often

**  Not Dinos But - Jet-Size Pterosaurs Took Off from Prehistoric Runways
Chatterjee said the flight and landing of Quetzalcoatlus probably looked 
like that of an albatross or the Kori bustard, the heaviest modern-day bird 
capable of flight

**  Broome dinosaur footprints detail substrate deformation unique on Earth
A previous, more taxonomic, approach to dinosaur ichnology focused on the 
collection and study of "museum grade" footprints which were used to 
identify dinosaur species and some of the individual dinosaur's 
physiological characteristics, such as size and mass

**  IMAX expressing interest in dino museum
The Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative (PCDI) has announced that IMAX has 
officially expressed interest in building a wide-screen theatre adjacent to 
the future Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
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**  Peering Inside Dinosaur Skin
We probably know more about the actual external appearance of hadrosaurs 
such as Edmontosaurus and Saurolophus than almost any other dinosaurs

**  Researchers uncover dinosaur proteins
Mary Schweitzer, a professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, was 
working with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences attempting to 
determine the sex of their dinosaur bone specimen when they accidentally 
discovered preserved dinosaur bone cells

**  Scientists Discovered New "Alien Horn-Faced" Dinosaur in Canada
If Spielberg ever greenlights Jurassic Park IV, he can tell the writer to 
include the Xenoceratops, a new species of dinosaur scientists discovered in 
Alberta, Canada

**  Other Fossil news - Eocene Big Bird Not so Scary, After All
If the attribution is correct, Diatryma did not have heavily-taloned feet 
adapted for impaling live prey; the trackmaker's foot was flat, with 
relatively broad toes and tiny triangular claws

**  Lessons from Einiosaurus
Contrary to many news reports that focused almost entirely on the dinosaur's 
appearance, the real importance of Xenoceratops is in its geological and 
evolutionary context
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**  Dinosaurs had cancer, too
I'd honestly never heard of dinosaur cancer, but it turns out that there are 
several examples of this, including a fossilized brain tumor discovered in 
2003

**  Diplodocus: Facts About the Longest Dinosaur
One of the best-known sauropods, this genus of herbivore dinosaur lived 
during the late Jurassic Period, about 155 million to 145 million years ago, 
and primarily roamed western North America

**  Sexy Dinosaurs: The Lure of the Feather
Ornithomimids were first unearthed more than 100 years ago, but 
paleontologists only learned about the existence of dino feathers 15 or so 
years ago

**  Dinosaur hunters know where to look in Laurel
The teeth and bones of Astrodon johnstoni, now the Maryland state dinosaur, 
were found in South Laurel as early as the 19th-century and as recently as 
1991

**  Hind wings gave four-winged dino flight control
A rethink of four-winged dinosaurs suggests that the much-debated hind wings 
stayed tucked under the body until deployed in the air for tight turns to 
dodge branches or chase prey

**  B is for Becklespinax
Although this gaudy, sail-backed theropod was an impressive predator at the 
time it strode across England around 140 million years ago, the fragmentary 
remains of this dinosaur have a tangled history only recently highlighted by 
the discovery of a more completely-known relative

**  Navajo Nation To Preserve Dinosaur Tracks
The tracks embedded in the hard sandstone were most likely made about 193 
million years ago in a mudflat along a river and filled in and protected by 
super-fine sediment

**  Not Dinos But - Ancient giant 'Predator X' sea monster finally gets a 
name
The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) 
and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as 
powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex

**  Quantitative Cladistics and the use of TNT
Registration is open for the workshop "Quantitative Cladistics and the use 
of TNT", June 3-7, 2013. Instructors: Dr. Goloboff and Dr. Szumik (Conicet, 
Argentine).

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