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** Elderly woman gives up dinosaur secret
The palaeontologists had convinced her they were not fossil thieves before
she led them to the remains of the nine-metre giant in the semi-desert
Patagonian steppes
** Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue
Palaeontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it
on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead
something looking a bit less like a rock
** Asteroid Created a Rain of Rock
When a 10-km (6-mile), dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth 65 million
years ago, it released so much energy that it vaporized rock, which then
fell like rain around the world
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** What's better than seeing dinosaurs? Seeing them taken apart
Visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which has one of the
oldest and largest dinosaur collections in the nation, will be able to watch
as the museum's collection of fossilized dinosaur skeletons are taken apart
before a renovation of the museum's almost century-old Dinosaur Hall
** Museum staffers, rockhound argue about the value of dinosaur fossils
A Vernal rockhound and jeweller went Dumpster-diving behind a state-owned
museum here and came up with boxes of dinosaur bones and other items
** Dinosaur Flies in for New Attraction
A life-size model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex was flown across the countryside,
dangling from a helicopter
** Argentine palaeontologist finds 90-million-year-old fossils
An Argentine palaeontologist said he found the fossilized remains of a
titanasaurus and several other dinosaurs that are more than 90 million years
old in the western province of Mendoza
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