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** U. of C. dinosaur hunter adds 3 notches to belt
There's a small, parrot-beaked dinosaur that munched on plants; an imposing,
sharp-toothed raptor that feasted on other dinosaurs, and a "bizarre,"
slothlike beast that was mostly a mystery until now
** Dinosaur tracks noticed by journal
The 20 tracks, slightly larger than dinner plates, are the only fully
documented dinosaur fossils ever found in Nebraska, which has few
outcroppings of rock from the era of the dinosaurs
** Geological Museum opens in Shanghai
The Oriental Geological Popular Science Museum will open to the public today
with the exhibition of two major dinosaur skeletons and a huge plaster
replica of crystal
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** Imagination let loose in Aurora's Jurassic Park
Rob Sula's business card, if he had one, would look strange: Trained artist;
full-time paleontologist
** UNI Museum/CFU join forces to bring dinosaur exhibit to Cedar Falls
Earlier this year, museum officials inquired about securing a replica of the
largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever found ---
for a temporary exhibit from The Field Museum in Chicago
** Fossil Supports Case for Dutiful Dinosaur Parenting
Varricchio and his colleagues analyzed a two-foot wide specimen of red-grey
mudstone collected from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, an area in
Liaoning, China, that is famous for providing well-preserved dinosaur and
bird fossils
** Library tiptoes around dinosaurs
Gail Borden library officials have been in touch with Project Exploration
about hosting the dinosaur exhibit, which includes six African dinosaur
skeletons and a lifelike model of a newly found species of pterosaur, which
was the first flying reptile in Africa
** Fossil hunter a living textbook
A veteran teacher in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has trekked some
300,000 kilometers - equal to a distance of seven round-the-world trips - in
30 years to collect fossils
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