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**  GSI rejects dinosaur nesting site claim
Available evidence does not indicate a dinosaur nesting site at Senthurai in 
Ariyalur district, as reported recently by researchers from Periyar 
University in Salem

**  Not Dinos But - Darwinopterus points to chunky evolution
Fossils of the flying reptiles, also known as pterosaurs, have so far fallen 
into two categories: primitive, long-tailed lizards and their gigantic, 
short-tailed descendants

**  Dinos trampled after death by own kind
Palaeontologists say analysis of a vast collection of broken dinosaur bones 
unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were trampled by other dinosaurs 
shortly after they died

**  Huge dinosaur find in China 'may include new species'
Scientists in Zhucheng city, Shandong province, have for months been 
exploring a gully over 500 metres (1,650 feet) long and 26 metres deep that 
is strewn with thousands of dinosaur bones

**  World's Smallest Baby Dinosaur Footprint Discovered
The world's smallest baby dinosaur's footprint measuring 1.27 cm by 1.06 cm 
has been discovered in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province
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**  Bizarre Dinosaurs: Why Were Some So Strange?
Palaeontologists say that these seemingly strange appendages and body parts 
developed for a reason, although in some cases, it's still not clear exactly 
what some of those reasons were

**  Nebraskan's fossils add up to dinosaur tail
My dad would load us up for a vacation, and every creek we'd stop at, we'd 
look for bones and fossils and whatever we could find

**  New San Antonio dinosaur museum opens
Native to San Antonio, Dinosaur George has created a travelling museum that 
features more dinosaurs than most history museums and delivers an experience 
not typical in the usual museum

**  A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed?
Many dinosaurs may be facing a new kind of extinction-a controversial theory 
suggests as many as a third of all known dinosaur species never existed in 
the first place

**  Paper Challenges Ideas About 'Early Bird' Dinosaur
Now scientists examining tiny pieces of a specimen's long bone under 
powerful microscopes for the first time said they found unexpected patterns 
indicating that the species grew at a rate faster than living reptiles but 
only one-third as fast as that of modern birds
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**  Other Fossils News - Chinese fossil find gives clue to ear's evolution
Researchers digging in north eastern China say they have discovered the 
fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal that could help explain 
how human hearing evolved

**  How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes
A new investigation of a fossilized tracksite in southern Africa shows how 
early dinosaurs made on-the-fly adjustments to their movements to cope with 
slippery and sloping terrain

**  Rare Evidence Of Dinosaur Cannibalism: Meat-Eater Tooth Found In 
Gorgosaurus Jawbone
Analysis of the wound in the jawbone showed the bite was applied with the 
same force as a two tonne great white shark

**  Jurassic site treasure looted by villagers
Barely weeks after scientists unearthed a Jurassic age treasure in the form 
of hundreds of dinosaur eggs in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, local 
villagers and students are looting and damaging the precious fossils
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**  Biggest ever dinosaur footprints found in France
Imprints measuring up to 2 metres (6ft 6in) in diameter and stretching over 
a vast area of land have been uncovered near the village of Plagne, 30 miles 
west of Geneva

**  Dinosaurs & Company
Sat Oct 17, 2009 - Sun Jan31, 2010. The Galt Museum & Archives presents the 
family-friendly travelling exhibit "Dinosaurs & Company" this fall

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