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** Evolution, sex and dinosaur necks
The idea is that down the generations, male sauropods evolved ever longer
necks to dominate rivals for the affections of females
** World's Largest Animatronic Dinosaur Park Opens at Kings Island
The six main scenes and nine thematic exhibits found along the more than
4,000-foot long path spread over 12.5 wooded acres tell a very compelling
story for guests about what the dinosaurs ate, when and where they lived,
how they protected themselves, and how they adapted to their prehistoric
world. See also Biggest Dinosaur Catches Fire
** When Triceratops Was a Giant Bison
Altogether, the fossil consisted of a pair of long horns attached to part of
the skull roof, and it had clearly belonged to some prehistoric animal much
larger than anything that roamed the West in modern times
** Volunteer's years of work expose a new dinosaur
For 11 years, Kevin Dermody had volunteered his time in the State Museum of
Pennsylvania, laboring over a hulking chunk of mudstone in the exhibit area,
chipping away with tiny tools as visitors watched him work
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** Tarbosaurus Gangs: What Do We Know?
The proposal of pack-hunting dinosaurs is old news in paleontological
circles, and the hard evidence to support the claims about Tarbosaurus has
not yet been released
** Keep those dinosaurs out of our school
Plans to open a natural history museum in Nicosia's Elenion primary school
has oddly been met with opposition from parents and pupils who want 'live
souls' at the school and not 'fossils and stones'
** Nature museum helps model the walk of dinosaurs
Computer animation can make dinosaurs seem real once again, and the
animation team at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa has been
recognized as the best there is at this kind of work
** Plankton revived oceans after dinosaur-era extinction
The revival of the world's oceans after the extinction event that felled the
mighty dinosaurs, suggests a study, may rest on the ability of humble
plankton to survive a century of seafloor burial
** Fossil find at Pennsylvania museum leads to dinosaur discovery
Researchers there and at the Smithsonian spent years investigating the
skull, and have now determined it is, in fact, a new dinosaur called
Daemonosaurus
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** Other Fossil News - How Hard-Headed Lizards Lost Their Legs
The mysterious "worm lizard" has finally found its evolutionary home; the
legless animals are closely related to a group of lizards named the
lacertids, a new fossil intermediate indicate
** New dinosaur species found in east China
The bones were a few centimeters smaller than the similar bones in the
largest T. Rex specimen, so there was no doubt that Zhuchengtyrannus was a
huge tyrannosaur
** Welsh beach could reveal why dinosaur mass extinction happened 200m years
ago
An international team have descended on Lavernock beach, near the famous
area of south Wales, to analyse segments of rock will may hold the clue to
the early days of the species
** Chinese 'dinosaur city' reshapes understanding of prehistoric era
Zhucheng's early Cretaceous relics, Liaoning's feathered dinosaurs and
Xinjiang's wealth of Jurassic material are among the Chinese treasure troves
reshaping our understanding of ancient life on Earth, and the processes that
have created the world around us
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** Is It Time to Declutter the Dinosaur Roster?
With almost 1000 types of dinosaurs on record and a new species being named
somewhere in the world every 2 weeks, paleontologist Jack Horner thinks too
many supposedly new discoveries are actually duplicates of animals already
on the books (see video below)
** Dinosaur footprints threatened by natural gas project
Fossilized dinosaur tracks that dot a remote 80-kilometre stretch of Western
Australia's coastline are under threat from a proposed natural gas facility,
say palaeontologists
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