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** HMNS exhibit could change the way you think about dinosaurs
The new hall, part of an $85 million, four-story expansion that will double
the museum's exhibition space, will house 26 dinosaurs and 61 major mounted
skeletons
** Dhar's dinosaur relics pushed to extinction
The latest threat is a huge cement factory being proposed near Manawar,
which, palaeontologists and environmentalists say, is the biggest challenge
to the fossils that had survived over millions of years
** Lehi museum receiving velociraptor cast
Woodruff said to help visitors see the difference, the museum will have a
life-size model of a Utah raptor and a skeleton of a velociraptor side by
side on display
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** Best of the Worst Roadside Dinosaurs
While the sculptures along the main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado come close to
the top of the list, my vote last week went to the ugly, ugly dinosaurs
outside Stewart's Petrified Wood near Arizona's Petrified Forest National
Park
** Stephen Fry Narrates The World of Dinosaurs
British actor and Apple enthusiast Stephen Fry has narrated this in-depth
and iPad-only virtual encyclopedia called Inside the World of Dinosaurs
** Scrambled Eggs and the Demise of the Dinosaurs
Even when paleontologists began to puzzle over why the dinosaurs vanished,
many thought that dinosaurs were inevitably doomed by strange, internal
growth factors that made them so large, stupid and ornate that they could
not possibly adapt to a changing world
** One dinosaur too many?
The young of modern reptiles resemble miniature adults, but Horner thinks
that dinosaurs grew differently, often looking very distinctive at each life
stage
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** The "Duck-billed" Dinosaur That Wasn't
The title made perfect sense during the early 20th century when these
dinosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus, were thought to be
amphibious creatures that dabbled in the water for soft plants and escaped
into Cretaceous lakes when predators came near
** The Secret of Dino Success
To figure out how the archosauromorphs came to dominate other species,
graduate student Roland Sookias of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in
Germany and colleagues traced the evolution of body size in therapsids and
archosauromorphs
** How To Take a Dinosaur's Temperature
Using a new approach, a team of researchers led by the California Institute
of Technology (also known as Caltech) figured out how to take the body
temperatures of dinosaurs by analyzing the concentration of certain isotopes
preserved in the mineral bioapatite, found in teeth
** Dinosaurs to take over the ROM this summer
Dinosaurs have always held a special place in the heart of the Royal Ontario
Museum, but this summer the Toronto institution will host the biggest and
strangest dinos yet
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** Why Dinosaurs Were So Huge
Benson and colleagues Roland Sookias and Richard Butler analyzed more than
400 species spanning the Late Permian to Middle Jurassic periods
** Not Dinos But - Real-Life DinoCrocs Crushed the Competition
When a dinosaur impersonates a croc, it's news, but when crocs steal a few
pages from the dinosaur's evolutionary playbook, no one seems to notice
** Feathered Dinosaur Had Black Wings?
To determine the color of the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx, scientists used
a scanning electron microscope to analyze a fossilized feather from one of
the raven-size creatures
** Science museum picks name for dinosaur
After a two-month naming contest, the Buffalo Museum of Science has finally
revealed the official name of its new Albertosaurus dinosaur
** Some Dinosaurs Used Natural Heat for Their Nests
We know without a doubt that these large sauropod dinosaurs laid eggs, but
there is no conceivable way that the gargantuan dinosaurs could have sat on
their grapefruit-sized eggs without crushing them all
** Walking in the tracks of dinosaurs
Walking on a trail near Moab, Utah, I stepped over some large depressions in
the bedrock but quickly stopped and realized that these were more than
depressions, these were dinosaur tracks; not the well-defined tracks I had
envisioned but what 18-ton creature leaves detailed footprints in the mud
** How much longer until we get some friggin' cloned dinosaurs already?
But before resigning ourselves to a decidedly undinosaured fate; there are
some faint beacons of hope that may yet result in something resembling a
real live rawr-ing dinosaur!
** DinoPrint Delights
It is rare that I get excited over dinosaur merchandise, as much of it is
poorly designed and produced. However I am fortunate enough to be in
possession of a large poster of museum quality, produced by a company called
DinoPrints.com.
** Ancient Dinosaur Nursery
Oldest Nest Site Yet Found Provides first detailed look into complex dino
reproduction behaviour
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