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** Early fossil collectors sent Alberta treasures around the world
Sometime before 1871, a Jesuit priest, Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux, was living
with Native Americans in southern Alberta and it was during that time that
he was shown bones of "the grandfather of the buffalo", or what was soon to
be identified as the fossilized bones of dinosaurs
** The Greatest Dinosaur Hits of 2011
Even as 2011 drew to a close, the findings kept rolling in - from the way
Deinonychus used its killer cutlery to the first record of sauropod
dinosaurs from Antarctica and sexual selection among dinosaurs
** How to Turn a Dinosaur Into a Bird
Since Jack Horner and James Gorman's book How to Build a Dinosaur debuted
almost three years ago, periodic lectures, interviews and articles have
piqued the public's curiosity about reverse-engineering a non-avian dinosaur
from an avian one
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** A Mysterious Thumb
Though my own suggestion is not any better than those I have been
disappointed by, I wonder if the Iguanodon spike is a Mesozoic equivalent of
another false thumb seen among animals today-the enlarged wrist bones of red
and giant pandas
** Dinosaur track discovered on Mount Pelmo, Dolomites
Close to the camp, in the middle of the ridge, geologist Francesco Sauro and
speleologist Roberta Tanduo from Padua spotted a series of depressions
resembling, due to their shape and disposition, dinosaur footprints
** Not Dinos But - The hunt for Mokele-mbembe: Congo's Loch Ness Monster
To date, there have been more than 50 expeditions to the region, but no
scientific evidence, unless you include the large claw-shaped footprint
recorded by a French missionary in 1776, and by a number of others since
** On the border of China and Mongolia, you can find two dinosaurs
french-kissing
Outside of the 20,000-person Chinese town of Erlian on the Mongolian border,
you can find this statue of two amorous sauropods making out for all the
world to see
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** A keen-eyed kid paleontologist
The four-year-old from Chelsea has a sharp eye and a love of dinosaurs and
her devastating critique of a sloppy model triceratops, found on YouTube,
has brought her special attention from the Canadian Museum of Nature
** 130 million-year-old Iguanodon dinosaur bone found in Sunderland back
garden
A "bizarre" bone from a dinosaur which walked the earth 130 million years
ago has gone on display after being spotted among tree roots in a Sunderland
back garden
** Who Wrote the First Dinosaur Novel?
In the opening of his 1852 novel Bleak House, Charles Dickens used a
Megalosaurus metaphor - the unpleasant weather had turned the streets in mud
wallows better suited to prehistoric life than travelers of Victorian-era
England
** When I grow up ... I want to be a dinosaur hunter
"I was hooked," Carrano said recently, standing in the basement of the
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, where he was
surrounded by big tables of fossils waiting to be chipped out of the rocks,
where they have been embedded for millions of years
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** Not Dinos But: Anomalocaris likely had thousands of eyes
Working on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, the team of scientists
announced the discovery on Wednesday, saying that they have discovered that
Anomalocaris, one of the strangest and fiercest creatures from the Cambrian
period, had an astounding number of lenses in each eye.
** New species of dinosaur discovered... in museum
The fossilised remains of parts of the skull of the Spinops sternbergorum
were discovered in 1916 by father-and-son fossil-collectors Charles and Levi
Sternberg
** Oil Sands Fossil Needs Years of Work: Curator
The Fort McMurray area has one of the largest crude oil reserves in the
world, but it was once covered by a marine ocean known as the Albian Sea and
home to countless ancient sea creatures
** New dinosaur species found
A 66-million-year-old partial skeleton discovered in Saskatchewan has been
confirmed as a new species of plant-eating dinosaur
** Dinosaur fossils in Singapore: Get ready for Twinky & friends
The team behind the Republic's new natural history museum hopes to have two
of the family of three dinosaurs here first, as soon as their 'citizenship'
papers are settled
** Other Fossil News - World's oldest tiger species is discovered in China
Although the skull of the more than 2-million-year-old fossil is smaller
than most modern tigers, it appears very similar in shape
** North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies and the
State Museum of Pennsylvania has unveiled enormous bones from North America's
biggest dinosaur
** Rex Riders - A Rip-Roaring Read
Take a pinch of Aliens, a dash of dinosaurs and mix them with a Western main
ingredient and you have the recipe for a rip-roaring good children's read.
** "Dinosaurs in L.A.'s Backyard" Float Features Three Stars From New
Dinosaur Hall
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) first-ever float
joined the 123rd Rose Parade as it began its world-famous descent down
Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California.
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