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** Suing Over Sue - How the World's Most Famous Dinosaur Put Peter Larson
in Prison
In 1990, Peter Larson paid Maurice Williams $5,000 for some fossilized
dinosaur bones that his team had found on Williams' property in South Dakota
** Library told to dig deep for dino show
The Gail Borden Public Library has accepted a challenge from the Grand
Victoria Casino to make an upcoming dinosaur display more than just a bare
bones exhibit
** Guangdong boasts world's largest collection of dinosaur egg fossils
A museum in south China's Guangdong Province has earned a place in the
Guinness Book of World Records with its 10,008 dinosaur egg fossils, the
largest collection in the world
** Other Fossil News: Tiny jawbone is a prehistoric ear-splitting wonder
The discovery in Australia of a fossil from a prehistoric egg-laying mammal
shows that in the case of the delicate middle ear, nature achieved the same
complicated feat twice
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** Insights Museum Revitalized
The Dinosaur exhibit has attracted many people that otherwise would not
visit the Insights Museum and officials expect their future exhibits will do
the same thing
** Fry bread flies, dinosaur dies
While fry bread found favour Friday in the Legislature, a renewed effort to
get the Tyrannosaurus rex named as the official state dinosaur fell flat
** Huge dinosaur cemetery uncovered in Brazil
Brazilian scientists analysed the size of dinosaurs' bones, peculiarities of
their vertebral columns and concluded that the present territory of Brazil
used to be inhabited by one of the largest prehistoric animals -
Diplodocusests came across the fossilized remains of an animal, which could
not be identified until it was taken back to the lab and further analysed
** Boning up on the past
Palaeontology has been his passion since he was just seven and made his
first discovery while accompanying a friend and his father on a
fossil-hunting outing in a quarry in Lilydale
** Other News: Plywood dino head stolen from I-25 sign
Someone has stolen a plywood dinosaur head from a billboard on Interstate 25
about 50 miles south of Denver.
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