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** Feature Site: Learning From the Fossil Record
Palaeontology is art, science, and imagination; it inspires a wealth of
curiosity by students about ancient life and helps all of us to know about
our origins and how our world with humans came to be
** Baby Dinosaur Bones Unearthed
The research team says the bones look like those of a hadrosaurus the
herbivore from the late cretaceous period more than 80 million years ago but
say it could be from a different species
** Not Dinosaurs But: Scholarly conference to analyze Godzilla's legacy
The University of Kansas plans to pay homage to the giant lizard later this
month, organizing a three-day scholarly conference for the 50th anniversary
of his first film
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** More Fossil News: Ancient Fossil Is Found on Danish Island
A Swedish geologist has found what appears to be the oldest known fossil
from a mammal ever found in Scandinavia - a 145-million-year-old tooth from
a prehistoric rodent
** Feature Site: Debating the Dinosaur Extinction
There are hundreds of threads of evidence that need to be untangled,
smoothed out, and put in their proper place before a clear picture can
emerge
** Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north
Hans Larsson, a McGill University palaeontologist (located in Montreal,
Canada), has found physical proof that Canada's Arctic regions once had a
Jurassic era
** Dinosaur twilight, really dawn
A team led by palaeontologist David Fastovsky at the University of Rhode
Island has established that during the last 34 million years of the dinosaur
era, the Late Cretaceous, there were at least 245 dinosaur genera
** Fossil dinosaur slept like a bird
The dinosaur, named Mei long, or 'soundly sleeping dragon', has lain
undisturbed for almost 140 million years
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