This Week's Headlines (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org ) ** No bones about it, dinosaur dig proves successful A western Queensland dig for dinosaur fossils has been described as the most fruitful effort yet, unearthing what is hoped to be some significant finds ** Site of Interest: Dinosaur Footprints in Coal "In the swamp forests, the peat surfaces have been deformed by vast numbers of dinosaur footprints" ** Other Fossil news: Excavating the extraordinary Sifting through a pile of earth this past week, James Farlow, a professor of geology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, spotted something smooth, hard and a little more than a square inch in size ** A Dinosaur Dines It's not often that a dinosaur gets caught in the act of eating, but a fossil from north-eastern Brazil appears to show exactly that. The 100 million-year-old fossil is of part of the backbone of a pterosaur, a flying reptile _____________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Send an email to:[log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________ ** Museum has bones to pick up The vast and varied collection includes ancient fish fossils, a triceratops skull, the skull of an ancient boar-like animal and the jaws of a megalodon, an ancient shark estimated to have been 40 feet long ** Fossil haul charges unlikely Federal authorities are unlikely to charge a WA collector over Australia's biggest fossil haul because Customs officials cleared its importation from China ** Reconstructing the past Tyler Keillor has never taken a course in palaeontology, yet he works for one of the world's top dinosaur experts at the University of Chicago ** Customs dig finds dinosaur bones - in mail In an unusual find, the dinosaur fossils - including specimens from the Triassic and Cretaceous periods - were in an air mail parcel at the Adelaide Mail Centre ** Visit the DINOSAURNEWS News Archive - stories from the past fortnight now filed online __________________________________________________________________________ DINOSAURNEWS webzine now read in 80 countries. Hundreds of Dinosaur Books, The latest Dinosaur News, 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] ____________________________________________________________________________ Notice: DINOSAURNEWS will be on vacation in the USA. There will be no new stories posted until August 5th but we promise to return refreshed! ========================================================= 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).