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** New Zealand's Dinosaur Lady makes a friend
Dr. Joan Wiffen visited Auckland Museum's new dinosaur and chatted with
visitors
** Local artist takes on a beast of a project
The local sculptor and a team of artists and volunteers completed the
construction of a 21-foot bronze torosaurus four months ago, a life-sized
monument that weighs more than 7,000 pounds
** Jolie, Pitt visit Alberta's dinosaur exhibit
Wendy Taylor, a spokeswoman for the renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum near
Drumheller, said the actor and companion Angelina Jolie dropped in for a
tour of the dinosaur exhibits Saturday night, and were very gracious and
accommodating
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** Birds of a feather
''Dinosaurs are all around us today in a very real sense," said Patrick
O'Connor, a paleontologist at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, speaking from
Tanzania where he had been digging up dinosaur fossils
** Island is top 'dinosaur hot-spot'
The Isle of Wight has been named one of the best places in the world to find
dinosaur remains
** Montana's dinosaur trail is all mapped out
A map from Travel Montana and the www.mtdinotrail.org web site can help you
find the state's 13 dinosaur museums via the state highway system
** Bird man of the Jurassic caused a flap in science
Before Ostrom's discoveries, dinosaurs were regarded as slow, cold-blooded
and dim-witted reptiles that vanished from Earth 65 million years ago,
leaving behind a few fossils
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