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 ** Scientists find evidence for crucial root in the history of plant evolution "What Kevin does is polish a surface of rock where the interesting fossils are, etch it in hydrofluoric acid, then put a gel on top" ** Extinct reptile species lived on in Australia An ancient hippo-like reptile, extinct elsewhere, existed in Australia for another 110 million years - alongside the dinosaurs that wiped them out in other places, palaeontologists have found ** Strange But True: Dinosaur Story Won Literature Prize Augusto Monterroso, who has died aged 81, wrote the shortest story in the history of literature ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Send an email to:[log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ ** Impacts, lava may have joined to kill dinosaurs Researchers at University College London are suggesting that the Indian lava flows are the impact site of an earlier, larger meteor, and that evidence of the impact was submerged by upwelling lava ** Fossil expert out at MNA Now, the museum is eliminating his department and laying him off less than a month before it opens a major exhibition introducing his dinosaur to the public ** Inside a Dinosaur Bone The microscopic structure of dinosaur bones is unique, suggesting that these animals were physiologically unlike birds, reptiles or mammals ** Fredericksburg Dinosaur Had a Big Foot Researchers unveiled a footprint belonging to what they believe was a 70-foot long dinosaur that lived near Fredericksburg as many as 115 million years ago ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________ FEATURE PUBLICATION: Night Comes to the Cretaceous : Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology Mr. Powell describes the whole debate in a text that deals well with the inevitable technicalities and will be found very readable by anyone interested in the history of Earth and the problems that beset scientists seeking to understand it. Click this link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0716731177/drdrumsnotforpro/10 2-6653963-3505762 ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ ** The Rise and Fall of Rudist Reefs During the warm Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs roamed the continents, oddly shaped mollusks called rudists dominated the Earth's shallow tropical seas, where they build massive reefs ** Leaping dinos! What a show of force The museum smartly steered away from the Hollywood dinosaur stereotype language and decided to promote the exhibit as more scientific than theatrical but still make it entertaining ** What is the Mesozoic Garden? The Mesozoic Garden recreates a primeval river bank as it might have appeared during the age of the dinosaurs ** Tusked fossil sparks resurrection row With the body of a hippo, the beak of a turtle and the tusks of a walrus, the long-lost dicynodont would seem hard to mistake ** Dinosaur Day/Weekend In Hazddonfield 2003 Location: Haddonfield 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).