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** Foundry casts giant sculpture for museum
The 7,000-pound, life-size statue of a Torosaurus latus, a dinosaur that
lived more than 65 million years ago, was cast at the local foundry as part
of a $500,000 project to create a dinosaur statue to set in front of the
Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Conn
** Tyrannosaur Symposium Schedule
"The Origin, Systematics, and Palaeobiology of Tyrannosauridae," is the
first scientific meeting ever on the life and times of Tyrannosaurs, the
fiercest predatory dinosaurs the world has ever known. Over thirty
international presenters are planning to attend, including many of the top
dinosaur scientists in the world.
** Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot
Gareth Dyke, a palaeontologist of University College Dublin, will tell the
BA Festival of Science being held in the city that most such creatures were
coated with delicate feathery plumage that could even have been
multi-coloured
** Other Fossil news: Remains to be seen - jungle's giant croc
Explorers have discovered the fossilised remains of a giant, 14-metre
crocodile deep in the Amazon jungle
** Life-Size Dinosaurs Reside in San Antonio
Dinosaurs that will inhabit the earth for those three months will include
the Texas state dinosaur Pleurocoelus; a Quetzalcoatlus perched in a forest
of cycads and palms; a vicious Bambiraptors looking for prey in a tropical
rainforest; the herbivorous 30-foot-long, duck-billed Kritosaurus; a mother
Edmontosaurus carefully guarding her eggs; a 6' centipede; two 3'
dragonflies; some 12" cockroaches, and of course, the giant, fearsome
meat-eating T-Rex.
** A chance to walk with dinosaurs!
The interactive workshop, which is being provided by Edinburgh Science
Festival, allows youngsters to uncover a 12ft. Stegosaurus skeleton and
other buried fossils from a mixture of sand and wax.
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** Colorado curator to lead tours of dinosaur exhibit
As COSI's "Dinosaurs of the Deep" exhibit winds down, special guided tours
will be offered at the downtown science center
** Digging For The Past
Kirk Johnson swung his pickax against the base of Pulpit Rock and broke off
a football-sized chunk resembling a piece of cake thinly layered with light
and dark chocolate
** Feature Site: Killer Dinosaurs photo gallery
Pictures from BBC's The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
** Another layer to Earth's story
The team from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was looking for elusive
signs of an asteroid that smashed into Earth 65.5 million years ago,
triggering fires, massive soot clouds and other changes that probably helped
drive dinosaurs to extinction
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