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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 )

**  B.C. bones could be new dinosaur species
A previously unknown species of dinosaur may have been discovered after a 
new study of seven bones found in northern B.C. nearly 40 years ago revealed 
a "mystery" about the creature's identity

**  Dinosaur display tells of feathered flight
Feather impressions found in the fossils of both flying reptiles and 
theropod dinosaurs indicate that the ability to fly rather than feathers 
themselves are really the defining characteristic of "bird."

**  Digging for fossils 'deliciously dirty'
Armed with paintbrushes, blade-tipped shovels and tweezers, 12 adventurers 
can join palaeontologists from AAOD and the Queensland Museum on two 
occasions each year

**  Dh1.1 billion dinosaur-themed park to be built in Dubai
Designer Jack Rouse is currently working on Restless Planet, which will 
combine theatre, drama, a variety of themed rides, shows and art with an
'edutainment' theme
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**  Jurassic Park comes true: How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to 
life with the help of the humble chicken
Just like in the hit Steven Spielberg movie, these men and women are intent 
on cracking the genetic code of the dinosaurs and opening the possibility of 
bringing them back to life

**  Forget Indiana Jones: Dinosaur hunter Xu digs it
On this spring day, a renowned dinosaur hunter is visiting Five Generation 
Gully, a dusty site near here in Liaoning province, to look at some newly 
discovered bones

**  Dinosaurs 'roamed freely' across Gondwana
Palaeontologist Dr Steve Salisbury from the University of Queensland in 
Brisbane, and colleagues, say a forearm bone from a meat-eating dinosaur 
first found in 1989 is likely to be related to a Megaraptor from Argentina

**  It's possible dinosaurs cared for young
An adult psittacosaurus was found with 34 young in a bowl shaped depression, 
perhaps guarding the young the way alligators do today

**  Other Fossil News - Pre-dinosaur era burrow discovered in Antarctica
A burrow has been discovered in the ancient flood plain of a broad Antarctic 
river only a few million years after a mass extinction ended the Permian 
period
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**  Dinosaur skeleton goes on display
The herbivorous scelidosaurus dinosaurs at Bristol's City Museum & Art 
Gallery are the best preserved remains to be found in the country

**  Ancient dinosaur molecules illustrate link to modern birds
This tissue that's produced in response to estrogen during ovulation is only 
found in birds and now dinosaurs

**  Dinosaur Diggers Bring Mobile Lab, New Techniques To Eastern Montana
Scientists who dig dinosaurs in Eastern Montana will now be able to 
chemically analyse fossils the same day they're excavated and before 
degrading begins

**  Malta dinosaur museum opens
The new museum features duck billed dinosaur fossils from near Malta and 
several other specimens
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**  Be the Dinosaur
The Louisville Science Centre

**  Antarctic Conference of Gondwanan Palaeontology
This is a second call for papers to be submitted for the Antarctic 
Conference of Gondwanan Palaeontology to be held on the Antarctic Peninsula 
in March 2008.

DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine with bite!
First published in 1998 and still going strong  http://www.dinosaurnews.org 

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