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** Colour My prehistoric World
According to a Yale University research study, colour pigments from organic
matter in a 100-million-year old fossilized feather may now give scientists
the ability to know the real colours of now-extinct animals
** Dispatch From The Dinosaur Trenches
What distinguishes this dig from the other excavations near Tumbler Ridge in
recent years is that this appears to be an articulated, hopefully
near-complete skeleton
** Dinosaur professor to lure tourists with fossils
A mild-mannered Chinese professor is being hailed as the world's greatest
palaeontologist for his part in the discovery of 30 new species of dinosaurs
over the past 15 years
** Dinosaur fossil is one of a kind model from Ford
Ford has contributed the company's expertise in rapid parts prototyping to
help bring "Leonardo"- a 77-million-year-old duckbill dinosaur - to life for
researchers and potentially millions of museum visitors around the world
** Dinosaur fossil is on the move
Dinosaur footprints from Ardley Quarry near Bicester have been moved to a
new home at the Oxfordshire Museum as part of a £127,000 project
** Dinosaurs featured at Clay Centre
A special gallery area called the "Dino Lab" has been created in
collaboration with the movie where families can check out real fossils,
replicas of dinosaur claws and teeth and dinosaur artefacts
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** People amazed by Burpee bone find
It has proved to be a hotbed for dinosaur bones, which will make friendly
companions for the museum's previous finds - juvenile T. rex Jane and Homer,
a juvenile triceratops
** Gujarat's Jurassic Park all set to enter the world list
Gujarat's natural heritage is all set to make international news again.
Raiyoli, the dinosaur fossil site near Balasinore, has been selected by the
Geological Survey of India (GSI) as one of the two Indian sites it will
propose for inclusion in UNESCO's list of geologically important zones
** Stolen fossils back in Argentina
Four tonnes of dinosaur bones and other fossils stolen from Argentina are
back home after they were seized while being sold on the US black market
** Some have called Paul Sereno a real-life Indiana Jones
The University of Chicago palaeontologist and National Geographic
explorer-in-residence meticulously pieces together dinosaur bones from
places few would ever venture, using his artist's eye and understanding of
anatomy to re-create species that were alive about 180 million years ago
** Dinosaur Tracks Lead Visitors to UW Geological Museum
The tracks of a young, meat-eating Allosaurus, another small meat-eating
dinosaur and a small plant-eating dinosaur are now permanently imbedded in
concrete
** Other Fossil news - Man discovers fossils of manatee-like creature
After several decades spent digging in a phosphate pit, Frank Garcia finally
emerged with a treasure that will go down in history
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** Major UK fossil find -Not only the dinosaur, but the whole environment,
in one piece
The very big deal about this is that it appears that the entire
chronological structure of the area, before the Iguanodon and after, is
intact
** Dinosaur Fossils In Utah Inspire 'Jr. Palaeontologist's
Visitors can see as many as 1,500 Jurassic-era fossils exposed on the cliff
face of the Douglass Quarry
** Germans told to bring back dinosaur remains
The Tanzanian government has said it is talking to German authorities into
bringing back dinosaur skeletons the Germans have held under their custody
since 1909
** Not Dinos But - Triassic Giant
The Royal Tyrrell Museum invites you to experience their newest exhibit
featuring the world's largest-known marine reptile - an ichthyosaur named
Shonisaurus sikanniensis
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