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 ) ** Fossil Hunters: A Tale of Discovery On the first afternoon here, fossil-hunters struck out across the parched sand to the rock outcrops along the bleached brown ridges and down into the broad basin ** Dinosaur Feathers: How Fossils Inform Us about the Evolution of Birds Mark Norell, chairman and Curator of the Division of Palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will give a lecture titled "Dinosaur Feathers: How Fossils Inform Us about the Evolution of Birds" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27 in McCrary Theatre, located in the Centre for the Arts on the Elon University campus ** Fossil & Prairie Park continues to grow and attract visitors The number of demonstrators for this year's Prairie Heritage Day at the Rockford Fossil and Prairie Park was down, blamed namely on the high gas prices, but the visitors to the park Saturday hardly seemed to notice ** Making Tracks Dinosaur tracks trail down the hall and prehistoric creatures cover the walls in Lehi's John Hutchings Museum of Natural History's fossil room - all the work of an eighth-grade artist ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** Family Fossil Fun: Dozens take part in fossil find in Gordon The Eocene era fossil area resembles most fields you drive by in the backcountry of the kaolin areas of Baldwin, Wilkinson and Twiggs counties ** Pterodactyl Sculpture Mysteriously Appears An unknown artist has transformed a coastal neighbourhood into Jurassic Park ** Tiny Utah town has impressive dinosaur museums It displays skeletons, fossils and realistic sculptures of dinosaurs that once lived in the region ** Dinosaur big as a plane ruled sky The largest animal ever to fly - a giant reptile called a pterosaur - was much bigger and more fearsome than previously realised, new fossil evidence has revealed. ** Fossils of ancient marine beings found Cretaceous deposits of sea-animals, believed to be 10 crores years old, have been found at the fossil areas of Saradamangalam village near Kallakudi ** Other Fossil news: $3,000 gift received for preservation & restoration costs of mammoth fossil find The Town of Gilbert has given the Mesa Southwest Museum a donation of $3,000 after the discovery of various fossils on the site of a new Gilbert development. ** Crocodiles About to Rock at Mesa Southwest Museum About 60 million years ago, during the early Cenozoic Era that followed the extinction of the dinosaurs, it was the fearsome crocodile that ruled as the largest predator on the planet. 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).