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** Dinosaur Skull Found in Church?
Encased in pinkish marble-like slabs supporting a balustrade, this
dinosaur - or what's left of it - has for centuries been the most faithful
presence in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, a town about 20 miles
from Milan
** Turkey Runs Like Winged Dinosaurs, Scientists Think
Although the Australian brush turkey (Alectura lathami) can fly the day it
hatches, it usually prefers using its wings to help run up surfaces - and
perhaps young proto-bird dinosaurs did something similar before they grew up
** Walking With Dinosaurs to be made into film
Emmy Award-winning BBC show Walking With Dinosaurs is to be made into a 3D
movie, the corporation has announced
** Korea has its own dinosaur: Koreanosaurus
Since a research team at the center found the fossil remains in May 2003 in
Boseong, South Jeolla, the team had struggled with determining the dinosaur's
exact shape
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** Baby Sauropod Tracks Discovered Near Denver
Dating from the Late Jurassic, some 148 million years ago, these tracks were
made before the Rocky Mountains rose, when Morrison was a broad savanna full
of dinosaurs
** Argentina exhibits new dinosaur species
The fossils, which were found 16 years ago in Luna Valley in western
Argentina, were exhibited by Argentina's San Juan Province and the Natural
Science Museum of the San Juan National University
** U of A dinosaur expert wins Alberta Order of Excellence
Philip Currie's office is packed with dinosaur fossils from South America,
Asia, and Alberta, and the shelves are stacked with hundreds of dinosaur
books, all highlighting the work that earned him the Alberta Order of
Excellence
** Plans for new dinosaur museum unveiled
Excitement buzzed through the air as the public got a first glimpse of the
preliminary plans for the River of Death & Discovery Dinosaur Museum
** 'Dinosaurs Unearthed' exhibit has been a boost for Union Station
The sound effects and colored lights may seem hokey to cynics, but Matt
Christopher, resident paleontologist at Science City, credits the exhibit
with educating as well as entertaining people
** Dinosaur species named after Texas philanthropist
The 14-foot-long, 250-pound Jurassic Period dinosaur was gregarious,
territorial and nurturing, according to Rowe's research
** First complete remains of dinosaur's ancestor found in China
The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus sunae, lived on the flood
plains around Lufeng in the Yunnan Province of South China about 200 million
years ago
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** New dinosaur trackway discovered near Tumbler Ridge
Tim then did the right thing: he went to the site, got a locality reading,
took photos, and brought his laptop in to the Peace Region Palaeontology
Research Centre (PRPRC) in Tumbler Ridge to alert the palaeontologists to
the potential discovery
** Where dinos hung out
Scientists have determined that different species of North American
dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period 65 million years ago occupied
different environments separated by just a few miles
** I'm tired of seeing naked dinosaurs
It's about time books, documentaries and movies caught up with the latest
fossil discoveries and depicted more feathered, bristly dinosaurs
** Key genes may contain insight into evolution of dinosaurs
In ongoing work that already has resulted in two scientific papers, Abzhanov
examined alligator and bird embryos and compared the functioning of key
developmental HOX genes
** Dinosaurs and the Badlands a big tourism draw in 'Dinosaur Capital'
Whether it's the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, stunning Horseshoe
Canyon, just a few kilometres from the town of about 6,500, the Jurassic Inn
or Fred and Barney's Family Restaurant, you are hard pressed in Drumheller
to avoid anything dinosaur
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