This Week's Headlines (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org )
** No bones about it, dinosaur dig proves successful
A western Queensland dig for dinosaur fossils has been described as the most
fruitful effort yet, unearthing what is hoped to be some
significant finds
** Site of Interest: Dinosaur Footprints in Coal
"In the swamp forests, the peat surfaces have been deformed by vast numbers
of dinosaur footprints"
** Other Fossil news: Excavating the extraordinary
Sifting through a pile of earth this past week, James Farlow, a professor of
geology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, spotted
something smooth, hard and a little more than a square inch in size
** A Dinosaur Dines
It's not often that a dinosaur gets caught in the act of eating, but a
fossil from north-eastern Brazil appears to show exactly that. The 100
million-year-old fossil is of part of the backbone of a pterosaur, a flying
reptile
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** Museum has bones to pick up
The vast and varied collection includes ancient fish fossils, a triceratops
skull, the skull of an ancient boar-like animal and the jaws of a megalodon,
an ancient shark estimated to have been 40 feet long
** Fossil haul charges unlikely
Federal authorities are unlikely to charge a WA collector over Australia's
biggest fossil haul because Customs officials cleared its importation from
China
** Reconstructing the past
Tyler Keillor has never taken a course in palaeontology, yet he works for
one of the world's top dinosaur experts at the University of Chicago
** Customs dig finds dinosaur bones - in mail
In an unusual find, the dinosaur fossils - including specimens from the
Triassic and Cretaceous periods - were in an air mail parcel at the Adelaide
Mail Centre
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now filed online
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