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**  Exhibit is a blast from the prehistoric past
Tommy and hundreds of other children marveled at 10 mechanical dinosaurs and 
Ice-Age mammals, fossils and other attractions in a new exhibit at the 
Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale

**  Amazing dinosaur discovery
Utah site yields first Cretaceous-era sauropod skulls ever in N. America

**  Hunting for dinosaur tracks
Elizabeth hadn't seen the dinosaur prints before and, like a true friend, 
didn't believe I knew where they were

**  Mary Schweitzer to Discuss Dinosaur Findings at the 2005 ECTS-IBMS Joint 
Scientific Meeting
Biologist Mary H. Schweitzer, Ph.D., author of the ground-breaking research 
paper recently published in Science on the discovery of soft tissue in 
dinosaur bone, will discuss how these studies relate to the evolution of 
modern-day animals - Switzerland, 25-29 June 2005
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**  Other Fossil news: Branch from the past discovered in Catskills
Researchers at the State Museum have discovered in the Catskills what is 
believed to be the world's most intact fossil of Earth's oldest tree

**  Take a stroll through the dinosaur garden
It is a dinosaur garden because Highland School has a set of dinosaur tracks 
in its courtyard that were donated by Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill in 
the mid-1980s

**  Oceanside paleontologist joins Natural History Museum
The reason they are so rare, Murphey said, is that during the late 
Cretaceous Period (about 75 million years ago) what today is coastal San 
Diego County was under the ocean and dinosaur skeletons had to be washed in 
from rivers flowing from the land

**  World's earliest bird fossil unearthed in China to "fly to" Japan
The bird fossil, named as Jinfengopteryx elegans and claimed as the earliest 
in the world, was discovered at the late Mesozoic stratum last July

**  Baby dinosaurs looked cute to charm mothers
The cute baby dinosaurs that have populated animated films such as the 
popular Land Before Time series for years have now turned out to be 
scientifically correct, according to a team of German palaeontologists

**  Dinosaur Called 'Missing Link'
Digging in the badlands of east central Utah on a tip from a repentant 
poacher, researchers have unearthed the fossil remains of a dinosaur 
"missing link," a primitive plant-eater that had recently evolved from the 
carnivorous raptors, which also produced modern birds

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