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** I'm With Stupid: When Inappropriately Named Dinosaurs Warmed the Earth
When I was about four years old and dinosaurs were my favorite thing in the
world, I desperately wanted to change my name to Pachycephalosaurus Hartley
(satire)
** Science casts a new eye on dino history
Lifting its head up high would have made the animal faint in the same way
humans can get woozy if we stand up too fast
** Dinosaur-Era Insects Frozen in Time During Oldest Pollination
With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny female insects called thrips had
just dusted themselves with hundreds of pollen grains from a gingko tree
more than 100 million years ago when they perished, only to be preserved in
tree resin called amber
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** Huge Asteroid Is Still the Central Villain in Dinosaurs' Extinction
For the study, the researchers departed from the practice of focusing almost
exclusively on raw counts of the number of species over time
** The Idiocy, Fabrications and Lies of Ancient Aliens
While the main point of the episode is that aliens exterminated dinosaurs to
make way for our species-a sci-fi scenario accompanied by some hilarious,
mashed-together footage of dinosaurs fleeing from strafing alien craft,
perhaps a preview of Dinosaurs vs. Aliens the movie-the various ancient
alien experts do little more than assert that such an event must have
happened
** Dinosaur Farts May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth
The researchers found that the greenhouse gas methane produced by all
sauropods across the globe would have been about 520 million tons per year,
a number on par with the total amount of methane currently produced by both
natural and man-made source
** Nebraska man changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex
Judge Gless asked Gold if he wanted to change his name because he was hiding
from creditors or law enforcement
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** Dinosaur expert Jack Horner testifies in development lawsuit
A dinosaur expert who was an adviser for the "Jurassic Park" films testified
in a lawsuit between his employer and a developer whose plan to use the
paleontologist's fame to launch a luxury development crumbled when the
economy collapsed
** Australia had 'globe-trotting' dinosaurs
A Museum Victoria illustration shows a meat-eating dinosaur, known as a
ceratosaur, which lived in Australia some 125 million years ago near
Melbourne
** Giant fleas sucked dinosaurs' blood
Creatures like fleas - but ten times bigger - plagued the dinosaurs with
their sharp jaws 165 million years ago
** Dinosaurs in my birdfeeder
Once fossil hunters got over their obsession with the 'big ones' and the
study of fossils developed into a true science, they began to study the
smaller versions
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** On the trail of dinosaurs that roamed the Downs
Here in the Bristol Dinosaur Project laboratory, high up in Bristol
University's Wills Memorial Building, there is always a preoccupation with
all things prehistoric
** Frenchman finds dinosaur bone while digging in garden
The bone was later identified to have come from the foot of an ornithopod
dinosaur - a two-legged herbivore - by Nicolas Morel, chief of the Green
Museum, a natural history museum in Le Mans
** Some Dinosaurs Were Already Declining Before Mass Extinction
Various large herbivorous dinosaurs were already on their way out before the
alleged asteroid strike that ended the dinosaur age about 65.5 million years
ago, according to a new international study
** Belfast's Ulster Museum celebrates an enduring fascination with Age of
the Dinosaur
This is perhaps the first - and certainly the biggest - prehistoric treat of
the summer, and it isn't any old pile of fossils: there are seven full-scale
animatronic dinos, joining 60 unique specimens loaned from the Natural
History Museum and augmented by the Ulster's own impressive collections
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** Patagonia Dinosaur Discovery Adds Extra Dimension To Adventure Industry
Palaeontologists from Argentina and Sweden discovered two fossilised eggs
and a set of bones that belonged to a little-known bird-like dinosaur that
lived in the region over 70 million years ago
** Russia claims largest dinosaur eggs
A university in Russia's Chechnya claims to have found an unprecedented
stash of giant fossilised dinosaur eggs in a remote mountainous area of the
North Caucasus region
** Koch gives Smithsonian $35M for new dinosaur hall
An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the
National Mall
** 2012 Meeting of the Southeast Association of Vertebrate Paleontology
The fifth annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Vertebrate
Paleontology will be held in the Department of Geology at Appalachian State
University in Boone, NC, on August 9-11, 2012.
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