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** Fossils Offer Support for Meteor's Role in Dinosaur Extinction
The scientists kept a low profile while digging, eager to avoid security
forces from the nearby air base - an important military site that helped
provoke the Cuban missile crisis
** Tracing dinosaurs in central Iran
Kerman province, in southeast of Iran, has always been renowned for its rich
collection of vertebrates fossils belonging to various eras and periods
** Museum pays tribute to fossil tourism pioneer
The Queensland Museum has paid tribute to one of the pioneers of the state's
dinosaur tourism industry
** Why state's oldest bone isn't on display
The football-size, 10-pound chunk of grey limestone appears to be nothing
more than a rock, indistinguishable from a thousand others you might step on
while hiking along Eagle Creek, the Wallowa Mountain stream 27 miles
northeast of Baker City where this fossil was found in 1990
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** New exhibit will be 'hatching' September 22 at Mid-America
This remarkable hands-on exhibition offers an astounding array of authentic
dinosaur eggs and nests collected from all over the globe - including those
of each of the major plant and meat-eating dinosaur groups.
** Museum's dinosaur footprint is a world first
A 165 million-year-old dinosaur footprint found last year on the Isle of
Skye by Dr Neil Clark, curator of palaeontology, has been officially
recognised as the world's smallest dinosaur footprint
** Rockford museum dinosaur could soon have company
This summer, teams from the museum and Northern Illinois University found
two sites in Montana where they unearthed the remains of a horned
Triceratops
** City of Arabia to be largest leisure resort on earth
They will pass into the ride area of the Theme-Park, equipped with over 100
state of the art, life-size, animatronic dinosaurs which will be constructed
by Kokoro of Japan, part of an international team led by the Natural History
Museum of London
** Skull study sheds light on dinosaur diversity
With their long necks and tails, sauropod dinosaurs - famous as the Sinclair
gasoline logo and Fred Flintstone's gravel pit tractor - are easy to
recognize, in part because they all seem to look alike
** Dinosaur out on the town?
The Muttaburrasaurus which used to patrol the footpath there has retired to
Hughenden, and the carnosaurus is obviously determined to take his place
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