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**  How Brachiosaurs Got So Huge
Sauropods appeared on the scene about 210 million years ago in the Late 
Triassic and dominated Earth's ecosystems for more than 100 million years 
from the Middle Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous

**  Debate Rages over 'Oldest Dinosaur' Find in Germany
A scientist in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt believes he has 
uncovered tracks from the world's oldest dinosaur

**  Park Service OKs new centre at Dinosaur National Monument
Design work will start next month for a new visitor centre at the nation's 
premier quarry of Jurassic-period dinosaur bones

**  More money sought for dinosaur work
The National Geographic Society has funded most of the research so far on 
Dakota, a 67-million-year-old Edmontosaurus with fossilized skin that was 
unearthed in south-western North Dakota

**  Feature Site - Journey to Alaska
Several years of studying dinosaurs in Big Bend National Park and the 
ancient environments in Alaska has provided an understanding of why some 
Texas dinosaurs only lived here in the south
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**  Other Fossil News - Fossil reveals how the turtle got its shell
Bone fragments from a 210-million year-old, land-dwelling reptile from New 
Mexico suggest that the earliest turtles didn't have much of a shell at all

**  Not Dinos But - Robotic spy plane to be modelled after prehistoric 
reptile
Texas Tech palaeontologist Sankar Chatterjee and University of Florida 
aeronautical engineer Rick Lind have designed a military drone after a 
Brazilian pterodactyl called the Tapejara wellnhoferi

**  Catastrophe Killed Dinosaur Herd, New Species Emerges
A catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago left a herd of giant, horned 
dinosaurs buried to become fossils

**  Dinosaur myths exploded?
Nothronychus, which was a therapod like T rex, weighed about one ton and 
stood three to 3.5 metres tall and it probably used its long arms to pull 
down branches to reach leaves

**  Grande Prairie teacher honoured for dinosaur discovery
Provincial scientists have now finally completed a comprehensive report on 
the Pipestone Creek dinosaur, officially dubbed Pachyrhinosaur lakustai in 
honour of the man who found it

**  New Birdlike Dinosaur Found in Argentina
A new predatory dinosaur with a birdlike breathing system found in Argentina 
may help scientists better understand the evolution of birds' lung systems
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**  Dinosaur fans flock to Tunbridge Wells
It marked the 75th anniversary of the unearthing of High Brooms' own 
dinosaur, the iguanodon, discovered by a workman at the local brick pits, 
and told the story of Big Al, an allosaurus which roamed the earth some 145 
million years ago

**  Mega-bird dinosaur Dasomis ruled Britain's skies
The mega-bird that swooped over waters covering what is now south-east 
England had wings that spanned five metres tip to tip and had bony teeth to 
grab its food

**  Fossil hunter digs up more controversy
Some palaeontologists fear that he is drawing a fuzzy line with the name of 
his company and fear it could mislead private landowners who allow fossil 
hunters on their property, with the intent that any dinosaurs discovered be 
displayed in a Montana museum

**  Extinction by asteroid a rarity: 'Sick Earth' extinctions more likely
The latest research from Bottjer's group suggests a similar slow dying 
during the extinction 200 million years ago at the boundary of the Triassic 
and Jurassic eras
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**  Want to meet T-Rex? Go to Jharkhand
the forest department has come up with the plan to set up a dinosaur park 
near Khatanga on the outskirts of Ranchi

**  Dinosaur Egg Exhibit Hatching
T he Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

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