Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine 
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This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the 
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**  Research finds growth helped dinosaur survive
Having few defences against some of the largest meat eaters that prowled the 
earth more than 65 million years ago, the Hypacrosaurus increased its 
chances of survival by growing rapidly

**  Digging dinosaurs in Old Snowmass
Beneath an unassuming hill on the sweeping property where Bennett and 
Jessica Bramson live lays a mystery 150 million years old

**  Skye's dinosaur connection to US
Footprints found on Skye and in Wyoming, in the US, were left by the same 
dinosaurs or a similar species, recently-published research has found

**  Haddonfield's hadrosaurus back
Curators have re-created the office of Joseph Leidy, the academy scientist 
who identified the bones 150 years ago, complete with a vintage microscope 
and his handsome wooden desk

**  BG Canada helps Tumbler Ridge with Dinosaur Footprint Move
An initial field trip revealed that Rob's find was of many large ankylosaur 
footprints, and established that this was a BG Canada well
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**  Dinosaur tail sale sparks anger in Portugal
A Portuguese bulldozer driver who is selling a dinosaur fossil he found 
online has been criticised by experts for refusing to hand the bones over to 
a museum

**  In the Footprints of Namibia's Dinosaurs
This farm is world famous for the dinosaur footprints that occur in 
sandstones of more than 200 million year old Etjo Formations that 
accumulated under even drier conditions than is now experienced with winds 
blowing in from the Namib Desert

**  Other Fossil News - China's ancestral turtle sheds light on evolution
Researchers in China have unearthed fossils of the most primitive turtle to 
date, a creature with teeth, a fully formed belly shell and a back shell 
that appeared to be just evolving

**  Rare Triceratops "Cliff" goes on display
A 22-foot (6.7 meter)-long Triceratops dinosaur that roamed the earth some 
65 million years ago has gone on display in Boston, one of only four nearly 
complete skeletons ever found of the three-horned herbivorous giant

**  Human hair linked to dinosaur claws
Both dinosaurs and humans appear to have inherited the genes responsible for 
human hair and animal claws
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**  Dinosaur Mummy CSI
On December 16th participants will meet Leonardo, a 77-million-year-old 
Brachylophosaurus canadensis (more commonly known as a duckbill dinosaur), 
and learn how CSI techniques were used to find out what kind of life this 
creature might have led and how he died

**  Rare dinosaur nest offers look into bird evolution
Canadian researchers say they've narrowed down the likely owner of a 
dinosaur nest, abandoned on a river's edge 77 million years ago, adding the 
discovery offers a unique look at dinosaur reproduction and the evolution of 
birds

**  Bone Wars in the Blogosphere
Normally comments are traded between experts, and arguments take place in 
the halls of symposia, but blogs and open access publishing allow the public 
a unique look into how scientists react and respond to published research

**  Palaeontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'
A group of palaeontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site 
nicknamed a "dinosaur dance floor" and concluded there were no dinosaur 
tracks there, only a dense collection of unusual potholes eroded in the 
sandstone

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