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This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the 
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**  Jurassic Park Novelist Dies
The real breakthrough in the book was Crichton's ingenious intellectual 
synthesis, the way he created an amazingly plausible story out of a couple 
of different strands of then-new science

**  Dinosaur invasion a museum first
Dinosaur Dynasty is a huge dinosaur exhibit straight from China, so these 
are fossils that have never been seen in Winnipeg before

**  Other Fossil News - Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs
An eight-armed creature that looked more like a modern party favour than a 
living animal colonized a large section of the world's oceans over 300 
million years before the first dinosaurs emerged

**  Dynamic Dinos
The evolutionary link between prehistoric dinosaurs and modern, warm-blooded 
birds is just one aspect of paleontology to explore at "Dinosaurs: Ancient 
Fossils, New Discoveries," a travelling exhibition that runs through Jan. 4 
at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

**  Site Of The Week - Raymond Alf Museum Holotypes Now Online
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology acts as a centre for 
paleontological education and research by maintaining and continually 
expanding its outstanding collection of specimens, presently numbering over 
80,000
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**  Famous dinosaurs
Earlier this year, I was fortunate to take my pupils to the dinosaur museum 
in Phu Wiang in the Isan region of Thailand

**  What Big Teeth You Have: Was the Heterodontosaurus an Herbivore or a 
Carnivore or an Omnivore?
If the sharp, conical teeth at the front of the dinosaur's mouth appeared at 
such a young age, perhaps Heterodontosaurus was omnivorous

**  What is EarthQuest?: Unearthing the massive dinosaur-themed project
"Dino" Don Lessem, a renowned dinosaur palaeontologist who reconstructed the 
world's largest dinosaur skeleton, is the man behind the idea for the 
project

**  Tour digs into Utah's dinosaur sites
When the giant meat eater, probably an allosaurus, walked across this spot 
about 150 million years ago, the landscape was a tropical environment on the 
shores of an inland sea, lush with ferns, cycads, conifers and ginkgo trees

**  These dinos are made for walkin'
It has probably been a while since anyone has seen a Brachiosaurus nearly 
bump its head on a Northern Kentucky University basketball arena scoreboard
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**  Palaeontologists sift Utah soil for plant fossils
Palaeontologists are sifting through the soil of an excavated lot in search 
of ancient plants, the only ones from the early Jurassic period found so far 
in western North America.

**  Tyrannosaurus rex noses out dinosaur competition
Scientists at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum in 
Alberta, Canada, compared the size of their olfactory bulbs - the part of 
the brain regulating the sense of smell - in a wide range of carnivorous 
dinosaurs

**  Moray dinosaur footprints to feature on TV
The footprint trails at Clashach Quarry, near Hopeman, will be part of a 
film about geology in Moray

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