Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS. Last year we brought you 740 dinosaur stories of international interest - this year we'll bring you 750 more! For the full story visit the NEWS section of the FREE webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org The headlines: ** Rare dinosaurs descend on museum for exhibit " Almost all of them were discovered in Mongolia, because the preservation of the rocks was so good there - the dinosaurs were everywhere, but very often the rocks from their time have been destroyed" ** Dinosaur egg will nest in Perth A fossil egg laid in France by a dinosaur about 70 million years ago has been donated to the WA Museum ** This Week's feature Site: Nakasato Virtual Museum A small fossil like a tooth or a claw is usually video-captured with certain magnification, so that a viewers can obtain more detailed features from the QTVR object ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Send an email to: [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ ** Ready for take-off For more than a hundred million years it lay buried beneath the mud in a remote corner of China. ** Local dinosaur will finally get its due on 'Dino Day' Why all the pomp and circumstance for an extinct leaf-eating relic from a land before time? ** Baby Dinosaurs: A Prehistoric Playground Baby dinosaurs are taking over the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science for 12 weeks ** Fossil fan's invite to bone up on dinosaurs He started to find fossils and his hobby turned into an obsession as he travelled the length of the UK looking for dinosaur bones and rare examples of stones ** Dinosaur-age Tree Fern Discovered in Henan Chinese botanists have discovered large areas of alsophila spinulosa, a rare tree species that has survived since the era when dinosaurs dominated the earth ** Research Casts Doubt on 'Killer' Dinosaur T Rex A new study suggests Tyrannosaurus Rex was more a scavenger than the bloody-curdling predator depicted in Jurassic Park ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ FEATURE PUBLICATION: A Field Guide to Dinosaurs : The Essential Handbook for Travellers in the Mesozoic. This beautifully produced and illustrated volume is the result of sophisticated scientific research. However, it has been written in clear laymen's language for non-scientists who have serious interest in palaeontology. CLICK on this link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764155113/drdrumsnotforpro ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ ** Warty NZ giant beetled about with dinosaurs With its brown, warty body covered in patches of bristles and a crust of waxy secretions, Archaeophylax worthyi provides palaeontologists and entomologists with a tantalising glimpse of early New Zealand ** Other Fossil News: More Fossils of Indricotherium Discovered in Xinjiang Chinese archaeologists have found more fossils of Indricotherium, a kind of gigantic rhinoceros that lived more than 25 million years ago DINOSAURNEWS webzine now read in 80 countries. The latest Dinosaur News, Dinosaur Books, Dinosaur Games, Dinolinks and a Dinomall. Read something ferocious this week: http://www.dinosaurnews.org SEND US YOUR NEWS: Does your Museum have a dinosaur focus? Put us on your media database. We welcome your news of events, discoveries and exhibitions [log in to unmask] ** Apologies for any cross postings ** ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).