Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine with bite! This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org ) ** Elderly woman gives up dinosaur secret The palaeontologists had convinced her they were not fossil thieves before she led them to the remains of the nine-metre giant in the semi-desert Patagonian steppes ** Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue Palaeontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock ** Asteroid Created a Rain of Rock When a 10-km (6-mile), dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, it released so much energy that it vaporized rock, which then fell like rain around the world ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** What's better than seeing dinosaurs? Seeing them taken apart Visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which has one of the oldest and largest dinosaur collections in the nation, will be able to watch as the museum's collection of fossilized dinosaur skeletons are taken apart before a renovation of the museum's almost century-old Dinosaur Hall ** Museum staffers, rockhound argue about the value of dinosaur fossils A Vernal rockhound and jeweller went Dumpster-diving behind a state-owned museum here and came up with boxes of dinosaur bones and other items ** Dinosaur Flies in for New Attraction A life-size model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex was flown across the countryside, dangling from a helicopter ** Argentine palaeontologist finds 90-million-year-old fossils An Argentine palaeontologist said he found the fossilized remains of a titanasaurus and several other dinosaurs that are more than 90 million years old in the western province of Mendoza 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 NEW ! RSS news feed at this address: http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/dino2004/dinosaur.xml ______________________________________________________________________ What our readers say: I must say first that I subscribe to your E-mail news letters and read them voraciously for book ideas. The news blurbs are such a wonderful service to us dino fanciers! Christine Gentry - author of 'Mesozoic Murder 'and 'Carnosaur Crimes' Thank you for an interesting, useful site. I recommend it to teachers who continue to contact me after 6 years of retirement. I also volunteer at the local science museum and recommend your site to the many children who visit it. Marvin Selnes, Sioux Falls, SD Thank You for the excellent coverage you've given my ongoing research. Best regards, Marilyn D. Wegweiser, Ph.D., Affiliate Faculty, Idaho Museum of Natural History ========================================================= 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).