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This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org )
** Dinosaur Discovery: Feathers may give scientists clues about early birds
Instead of digging through rocks and rubble to find fossils, a group of
Canadian paleontologists decided to dig through museums' amber collections
instead
** The Bristol Dinosaur build begins
The recreation of Thecodontosaurus is the culmination of a three and a half
year project and the replica will be based on the very latest scientific
discoveries about how the dinosaur would have looked when it roamed around
Bristol 210 million years ago.
** Colouring in the dinosaur book
Chemists now face a bigger challenge that has traditionally fallen into the
hands of artists: adding colour to the ancient world
** Big Water Dinosaur Festival 2013
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) has provided a
treasure trove of dinosaur discoveries; of the 39 new dinosaur discoveries
worldwide, nine have come from the GSENM
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** Dinosaur in a wind tunnel tests feathered flight
The creatures lived during the early Cretaceous period and are a genus of
dromaeosaurs - two-legged predatory dinosaurs that are related to birds
** Australia: Dig up a dinosaur graveyard
It's a cook-an-egg-on-the-ground kind of day on the outskirts of Winton, a
town best known as the birth place of Waltzing Matilda
** Dinosaur village offers new body of evidence
After two months of digging in the red mountainous terrain, paleontologists
have excavated more than 200 dinosaur bones since July
** Thousands Of Dinosaur Tracks Discovered Along Yukon River
He and colleagues floated nearly 500 miles of the Yukon River, where they
collected literally 1 ton - or 2,000 pounds - of fossilized dinosaur tracks
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** Dinosaur expert Kristi Curry Rogers on Montana fossils, 'Jurassic Park'
When paleontologist Kristi Curry Rogers takes her summer trips to Montana, a
well-known dinosaur graveyard, the students on the research mission return
to Macalester College with buckets of sediment to pore over
** Rare Dinosaurs Coming to Science Museum in St. Paul
The Science Museum of Minnesota has announced the premiere of Ultimate
Dinosaurs, an exhibit featuring 20 fully-articulated dinosaur specimens from
unusual locations in the Southern Hemisphere
** Not Dinos But - Meteorite Minerals Hint at Earth Extinctions, Climate
Change
Tiny minerals leftover from many smaller meteorites could provide the
geological evidence needed to show how rocks falling from the sky changed
the course of life's evolution on our planet more than just once
** Saitta '14 discovers new way to distinguish dinosaur sexes
Evan Saitta '14 discovered a new way to distinguish between male and female
stegosauruses while completing his senior thesis research in central Montana
this summer
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** Not Dinos But - Scorpion Is Gondwana's Oldest Land Animal
A fierce predator with a huge stinger and long pincers is the oldest
land-animal fossil ever found on the former Gondwana supercontinent, a new
study reports
** Researcher trying to identify, date dinosaur fossil found in state park
outside Las Vegas
A Nevada paleontologist says that he thinks apparent dinosaur bone fossils
found at a state park about 20 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip could date
to the late Triassic period and might be the oldest land animal ever found
in the state
** Jurassic Park ruled out - dinosaur DNA could not survive in amber
Ancient dinosaur DNA is unlikely to survive inside the bodies of insects
encased in amber according to a new study that will dash the hopes of fans
of Jurassic Park that it may be possible to one day resurrect the giant
prehistoric reptiles
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** Conference is dinosaur coup
The University of Southampton and Visit Isle of Wight have joined forces to
bring together dinosaur palaeontologists from Britain and China to the
National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and Dinosaur Isle
** Other Fossil news - Lightning-Fast Evolution Clocked During Cambrian
Explosion
A crustacean with 3,000 lenses in its eyes, 6-foot-long shrimplike creatures
and organisms that looked like tulips emerged hastily (from an evolutionary
perspective) on the scene some 520 million to 540 million years ago
** Carmel dinosaur sculpture needs permits
The dinosaur loomed over the front edge of the home's front yard, violating,
according to officials, city codes that require a structure or decorative
work be set back 15 feet from the property line
All this and more in DINOSAUREWS. Published since 1998.
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