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** Canadian jailed in China for smuggling fossils
A Canadian academic was sentenced to seven years in a Chinese jail Thursday
after being found guilty of heading a smuggling operation trafficking nearly
3,000 dinosaur fossils within China and abroad
** Ancient dinosaur tracks now under cover in Dixie
Three types of theropod dinosaur tracks from meat-eating dinosaurs have been
identified - the Eubrontes, Grallator and Gigandipus
** Mongolia looks to archaeologists and dinosaur hunters to help create
jobs
Archaeologists and dinosaur hunters are digging up Mongolia's vast
countryside, seeking to retrace thousands of years of history in this
storied but still mysterious land
** Spend the day with dinosaurs
In the Great Room, the museum's centerpiece, visitors can view a 110-foot
long mural depicting "The Age of Reptiles" and a number of dinosaur
skeletons including the only skeleton officially labeled a Brontosaurus
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** Deaf As A Dinosaur
If tyrannosaurus rex were still alive, it would not be able to hear a human
screaming, new research has found
** Not Dinos But: Meet paleoclimatologist Jane Francis
Francis has fossils from Antarctica which show that, even after the
continent drifted to its current polar position, it used to boast a lush,
green sub-tropical forest
** A Real Find For Fossils
Rarely a day passes that they do not find the teeth, bones or other remains
of a dinosaur or other prehistoric animal or plant at Project Dino, their
excavation site on the banks of Lake Barreales
** Dinosaur mystery solved
She wasn't a rare Nanotyrannus, as some scientists had suspected since the
first of her bones were unearthed by museum staff and volunteers in Montana
in 2001
** Coming Event at the Natural History Museum, London
Dino Jaws, 30 June 2006 - 15 April 200
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