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** 3D Fossils from the Isle of Wight go worldwide
Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown will soon have many of its Isle of Wight
fossils on display in full 3D imagery as part of a major national scheme
** Dinosaur excavation sites inundated by China flood
Flooding in northeast China has inundated famous dinosaur excavation sites
and a local museum as workers worry dinosaur fossils may be swept away
** Small dinosaurs show T. rex's bite marks
Experts who didn't participate in the study said there was already ample
evidence that T. rex went after live animals as well as scavenging carcasses
** Jurassic Park: the truth about dinosaurs
Fossils of multiple Deinonychus (a creature similar in some ways to the
Velociraptor) have been found in proximity to each other, but there's no
reason to think just because they are preserved together they habitually
lived together
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** Dinosaur artifacts from recent Montana dig arrive at Kenosha museum
Project leaders Thomas Carr, an associate professor of biology and director
of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology, and Nick Wiersum, curator of
education for the dinosaur museum, uncovered bone fragments of a 2-year-old
tyrannosaurus and a 600-pound piece of the frill of a triceratops in a
remote Hell Creek Formation range in southeastern Montana
** Outback Qld dinosaur museum makes world architecture finals
The Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum in outback Queensland has made it to
the finals of a world architecture contest for the second consecutive year
** Dinosaur hunter Philip Currie has museum named after him
Philip Currie, the renowned Alberta paleontologist who helped put the Grande
Prairie area on the map as a dinosaur-hunter's paradise, is having a museum
named in his honour
** Ostrich necks provide clues to how sauropod dinosaurs moved, ate
A new study suggests that model doesn't convey the whole picture because it
doesn't fully consider how soft tissues like cartilage and muscle - absent
from dinosaur bones but available for study in extant animals - might have
influenced flexibility
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** Research is challenging basic assumptions about dinosaurs
Excavating the bones from the soft shale, the researchers use the same
implements fossil hunters have wielded for more than 100 years - trowels,
paint scrapers and dental picks - but they also have access to tools and
techniques that are thoroughly modern
** Dinosaur Hunters Return For Field Season
Composed of researchers from Fairbanks, Japan, Korea and Texas, the team was
helicoptered into wilderness in the Riley Creek area to look for footprints
laid down 70 million years ago
** 10 best places to see dinosaurs
From science museums to excavation sites to animatronic displays, would-be
paleontologists can satisfy their curiosity at these sites across North
America
** Sharks vs. Dinosaurs: Deadly Encounters
Sharks and dinosaurs were both prevalent during the same periods, but did
they ever encounter each other? Recent evidence suggests that they likely
did
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** Researchers make big dinosaur discovery at Billings Clinic
Making this breakthrough on a 150-million-year-old fossil has taken a
countless number of man hours and dedication
** The Subtle Mysteries Of Dinosaur Sex
The big guy's big guy would be inside the cloaca, which would have looked,
from the outside like a slit beneath the dinosaur's tail
** Fresh analysis of dinosaur skulls finds 3 species are 1
A new analysis of dinosaur fossils by University of Pennsylvania researchers
has revealed that a number of specimens of the genus Psittacosaurus - once
believed to represent three different species - are all members of a single
species
** The Top Ten Weirdest Dinosaur Extinction Ideas
Paleontologists, both professional and amateur, have dreamed up some bizarre
explanations of how the dinosaurs disappeared from Earth
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** U of Alberta joins the world of open online education with free dinosaur
course
Over a 12-week period, Dino 101 will teach students about the non-avian
dinosaurs that roamed the Earth, some 250 to 65 million years ago, during
the Mesozoic Era
** Museum crowd hears latest area dino research
Stein, a commercial paleontologist who has made significant discoveries in
the Belle Fourche and Tri-State area, gave his audience updates on the
latest research into dinosaurs, including the big Tyrannosaurus rex that
roamed the area millions of years ago
** 10th North American Paleontological Convention
Here's an opportunity for those of you interested in digitization
technologies to present your research at the 10th North American
Paleontological Convention!
All this and more in DINOSAUREWS. Published since 1998
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