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** River ride, fossil dig included in COSI dinosaur program
Stephanie Koehler, COSI marketing manager, said two geologists also will be
aboard the boat and later at the fossil dig to answer questions: Mark Camp
of the University of Toledo and Mark Ferguson of the University of Michigan
at Flint
** Thai Experts find dinosaur and turtle fossils
Dinosaur and turtle fossils from the Jurassic period have been discovered at
Phupan Mountain in Mukdahan province
** Sue, the dinosaur, welcomes you to the museum
Sue has the distinction "of being the largest, most complete and best
preserved" Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found
** Committed to science
Chinsamy-Turan published the first book devoted entirely to fossil bone
microstructure entitled The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bone - Interpreting
Biology through Fine Scale Techniques
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** Other Fossil News: Bones in S.J. mud excite fossil-hunters
The bones of a large and perhaps prehistoric creature have been found in a
canal next to the Guadalupe River in North San Jose, an exciting discovery
that could shed light on the ancient mammals that once roamed the Santa
Clara Valley
** Hill bone-scan proposal rises again
A Newsweek article surprised folks at Hill Air Force Base when it mentioned
a 2003 request from a Montana-based paleontologist to use an Air Force CT
scanner on an entire fossilized dinosaur
** Science II Building mural depicts dinosaur-era Valley vista
Take a cephalopod, a belemnite, a plesiosaur, some sharks and a mosasaur and
place them in water
** Dinosaurs had respiratory system like birds
Ancient beasts such as the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex were thought to have had
lungs similar to crocodiles but researchers in the United States have
discovered the creatures had more in common with birds than reptiles when it
came to breathing
** Fairbury native brings back dinosaurs
A Utah raptor is parked in the driveway of Thom Hunt's home on D Street,
awaiting shipment to a Wyoming museum
** Bigger than your average bear
The popular attraction at the Providence, R.I., zoo, back for the summer and
now open on select weekend nights for an extra-spooky experience, brings the
long-extinct creatures back from the dead, placing lifesize animatronic
figures throughout a three-acre wooded trail
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