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** Team from MSU, Mongolia finds 67 dinosaur skeletons
One recent week in the Gobi Desert produced 67 dinosaur skeletons for a team
of palaeontologists from Montana and Mongolia who want to flesh out the
developmental biology of dinosaurs
** Re-creating dimensions of life and history
The light moved slowly over the casting of a dinosaur bone, up and down,
side to side, scanning as many as 19,500 points per second that streamed
into a computer
** Durham Dinosaur May Become Extinct
Hurricane Fran almost drove Durham's dinosaurs to extinction
** Huge numbers of dinosaurs lie in wait
Steve Wang, a statistician at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and Peter
Dodson, a palaeontologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
US, totted up the skeletons found so far from each known dinosaur genus and
plugged the figures into an established mathematical model that links
observed data to unseen genera
** Not Dinos But: Dallas gets a botanical 'T. rex'
The Wollemi pine belongs to a plant family that may have coexisted with
dinosaurs 200 million years ago
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** Dinosaur Discovery Day: Rocks and Roles!
Trained guides will be stationed along the roadside trail in order to
explain fossils and other features
** Things with Feathers: Looking Back at Dinosaur Days
I'd like to be able to make some kind of Berkeley connection with the
California Academy of Sciences' new exhibit, "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils,
New Discoveries" but geology is against me
** Dinosaurs - Giants of Patagonia
Sky High Entertainment have announced that the trailer is available for
viewing on the official Dinosaurs web-site,
** First-ever Sculpture of Utah's New Dinosaur
Utah scientists announced the discovery of fossilized hand and foot bones of
the seven-foot, bird-like dinosaur in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument in April 2006
** Corridor of Time
Remains of a triceratops dinosaur and other fossils were on the move this
week as North Dakota Geological Survey and State Historical Society of North
Dakota personnel began work on a new paleontology exhibit
** Dinosaur eating habits challenged
Some of the most commonly-held assumptions about dinosaur's eating habits
have been challenged by a new study
** Feature Site - The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre
A full scale complete reproduction of "Bruce", the 40 foot long Mosasaur
specimen which was unearthed North of Thornhill, Manitoba in 1974 is in
their re-designed Mosasaur gallery.
** International Dinosaur Art Contest
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