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** Japanese man held in China after trying to take fossils home
The unidentified man was apprehended at Beijing Capital International
Airport on charges of trying to smuggle cultural assets, after customs
officials found him carrying 217 fossil pieces, including the skull of a
small-sized bird dinosaur
** City Council votes on changes to dinosaur track site
With a new centre opening in a few months at the St. George Dinosaur
Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, the City Council took action to approve some
changes and additions to the dinosaur experience
** Gujarat-The Jurassic Park of India
Discovery of the fossilised eggs of these creatures placed in the 'Indroda
Dinosaur and Fossil Park' in Gandhinagar is a living testimony of the
existence of these creatures
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** Variety Couldn't Save the Dinosaurs
According to Fastovsky and his co-authors, early dinosaurs tended to be
unspecialized, but during the late Cretaceous period they became much more
specialized in their feeding and behaviour patterns, driving their evolution
into more and more genera
** Dinosaur fossil found in China
The Xinhua news agency says palaeontologists unearthed 28 fossils, including
vertebrae, tail bones, ribs and leg bones of a 13-metre-long Iguanodon
dinosaur from the early cretaceous period in the Mazong mountains in Gansu
province
** Notorious Asteroid Didn't Kill Dinos
Startling new evidence from boreholes drilled into the Chicxulub crater
indicate that the great impact there happened hundreds of millennia too
early to have been the one that wiped out the dinosaurs
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** NZ Dinosaur boffin wins top American award
Hawkes Bay's dinosaur lady, Joan Wiffen, has been awarded the Morris Skinner
Award by the United States-based Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology at its
64th annual meeting in Denver.
** Dinosaurs in bullet-proof vests
Palaeontologists of the University of Bonn were able to demonstrate that
some of this armour plating shows a striking similarity to modern composite
materials as used, for example, in bullet-proof vests
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