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 ** Feature Site: Palaeontology Fieldwork The past few years has seen a rejuvenation of the University of Utah's vertebrate palaeontology field excavations ** Palaeontologist chills out in Antarctica Zinsmeister, once a California surfer, now spends much of his time working on his research of evolutionary processes in the Southern Hemisphere ** Wyoming's Real Jurassic Park: 130 Years of Dinosaur Research In particular, foundational work done in Wyoming and the surrounding states in the 19th century helped bolster the emergence of dinosaur palaeontology worldwide ____________________________________________________________________________ _ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Send an email to:[log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________________________________ _ ** Toll road yields fossil traffic jam The tiny, shrew-like creature might have scratched out a precarious existence along an ancient shoreline, doing its best to dodge hungry dinosaurs ** Pieces come together But what he had stumbled on were the remains - about 40 percent complete - of a 65.5 million-year-old triceratops ** Dinosaurs of a feather The palaeontologist is among many who have searched from Mongolia to the Sahara trying to piece together the link between all modern-day birds and distant dinosaurs ** Team set to extract set of dinosaur bones A team of palaeontologists will work this summer to extract what could be the remains of Western Canada's oldest dinosaur bones from a canyon near Tumbler Ridge in northeast British Columbia ** Dinosaur centre set to make zoo world leader The developer wants to create a museum leading to the fossil-rich Stores Cavern at the foot of Castle Hill ** Dinosaur exhibit back on track Locals and visitors flocked to the world's only known dinosaur stampede site after a massive effort by construction teams and palaeontologists to have the area ready ** Investigation into dinosaur head smuggling operation The fossilised head of a dinosaur has been discovered in a shipment container by customs officers at an Argentinean airport ** The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is offering this opportunity through its Junior Palaeontology Program. The Junior Palaeontology Program, part of The Children's Museum's $25 million "Dinosphere: Now You're In Their World" exhibit opening in 2004, is one of the most comprehensive youth palaeontology programs offered by a children's museum anywhere in the United States. 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).