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Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS -  the international Dinosaur 
Webzine with bite!

This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the 
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org

**  Mesalands Dinosaur Museum makes important discovery
She didn't know when she enrolled in at Mesalands in fall 2004 that she 
would help make a discovery that would broaden the understanding of the 
Triassic era and the phytosaurs - a crocodile like predator

**  Dinosaurs return to Earth, courtesy of Japanese robotics
Robot replicas Tyrannosaurus rex and Parasaurolophus, capable of strolling 
one kilometre an hour, will greet visitors at the six-month World Exposition 
which opens this month in the central Aichi region

**  Dinosaur Day brings the past into focus
Visitors may examine tools that fossil hunters use, see 50-million-year-old 
fossils of plants and insects from Eastern Washington, watch scientists 
uncover fossils from rocks, and question members of the Northwest 
Paleontological Association

**  Dino sculptor to display creation in Glen Avon
The world-renowned 53-year-old dino sculptor is building an 80-foot-long 
steel brachiosaurus, a giant Jurassic-era plant-eater 20 times heavier than 
an elephant

**  Dinosaur footprints to be developed as new tourist attraction
A strange set of footprints which locals in Thailand's northern province of 
Nan believe to have been created by dinosaurs are to be developed as the 
province's latest tourist attraction
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**  New Exhibit - New super-sensing T. rex
Waiting for you in the Dinosaurs gallery in the Natural History Museum from 
18 March, this giant, two-legged meat-eater can sense when people are near, 
so be on your guard!

**  Jurassic Coast Shortlisted for Tourism Award
Stretching almost 100 miles, the Jurassic Coast yields a steady flow of 
dinosaur remains and was recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 
2001

**  Dinosaur's past played a role in state
Connecticut's unique geology includes trap rock ridges in Meriden, Hamden, 
and other places, and large brownstone deposits with different coloured 
layers, as well as glacial boulders by the shore

**  State Museum's Prehistoric Predators exhibit runs through July 17th
The museum's Tut Underwood says, "It's a fabulous exhibit of dino skeletons, 
fleshed out models, roaring ones, lots of hands on things, tons of fun and 
learning

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