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** Search is on for lost world of dinosaurs
In an unheated room in a corner of the compound, middle-aged women are bent
over dinosaur bones, cleaning them with pocket-knives and small brushes
** Animations Reveal How Dinosaurs Might Have Walked
When the American Museum of Natural History wanted to create a digital
walking Tyrannosaurus rex for a new dinosaur exhibit, it turned to dinosaur
locomotion experts John Hutchinson and Stephen Gatesy for guidance
** Dealer fined $27,000 for 'shameful' plundering of Chinese fossil
treasures
A Melbourne mineral dealer has been fined for smuggling fossilised dinosaur
eggs from China to the US in what authorities described as shameful
plundering of prehistoric treasures
** New fossil complicates picture of feather evolution
A 150 million-year-old fossil from southern Germany has palaeontologists
ruffled over how feathers arose in the line of dinosaurs that eventually
produced birds
** 'Super Croc' finder to lecture here
When he visits Houston's Museum of Natural Science next week, Sereno, a
professor at the University of Chicago, will outline some of these
adventures and discuss how crocodiles could have grown to be so large
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** Two Charged in Theft of Replica Dinosaur Skull
Auburn police say two people are charged in connection with the theft of a
350-pound Tyrannosaurus Rex skull that was stolen from Auburn University's
Petrie Hall in early December
** Dinosaurs rule at Tucumcari museum
The world's largest collection of bronze dinosaur skeletons awaits visitors
to Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum in Tucumcari
** Museum's imprint grows
One of the world's rare pentaceratops skulls is among the newly acquired
dinosaur fossils that have made New Mexico's natural history and science
collection the biggest among its peers
** Field's 'Evolving Planet' exhibit worth the wait
The Field Museum can rightly say its latest permanent exhibit was 4 billion
years in the making
** Jurassic park down under
The dinosaur stampede is at Lark Quarry, 110km south of Winton, in
Queensland's outback
** Have Fun at Dino-EGGstravaganza 2006
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