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 purported to prove transition of dinosaurs into birds The fossilised claw from a Maniraptoran dinosaur was found at the Peiropolis site in the state of Minas Gerais ** Speaker uses humour to teach about dinosaurs Dinosaur George Blasing, owner of Dinosaur World in San Antonio, was the featured speaker at Dinosaur Day ** Malta's Dinosaur Field Station gets $500,000 grant The field station hopes to use the money to lure in another $3 million of corporate donations to build a new Great Plains Dinosaur Museum ** Of Professors and Predators: John Ostrom, Deinonychus Antirrhopus, and the Nature of Dinosaurs Significant discoveries are often made on the last day of field seasons, and, indeed, it was on a final tour through the badlands east of Bridger in August 1964 that thirty-three-year-old palaeontologist John Ostrom and his assistant Grant Meyer stumbled across weathered claws and hand bones sticking out of the ground ** Ogden park promoting the study of the beasts They have more than a hundred models of dinosaurs scattered over eight acres, and what's more, 99 percent of them are indigenous to Utah ** New Exhibit Larger Than Life Dino Quest, a new exhibit at Santa Ana's Discovery Science Centre, is part scavenger hunt, part video game ** Dinosaurs rule at Paterson plant Looming above the work benches, an apatosaurus 85 feet long and 22 feet high at the shoulder blade leans ahead; a pursuing 32-foot allosaurus (seeking a juvenile offspring that isn't in place yet) crouches behind ** Other Fossil news - Looking At The Dawn Of Life - Detailed Images Of Embryos More Than 500 Million Years Old The detailed images of embryos more than 500 million years old have been revealed by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, UK ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** Meteorites wiped out dinosaurs in Gujarat Traces of iridium, which are found in the area where the dinosaur fossils have been found, gives credence to the theory that dinosaurs must have been wiped out because of huge meteorite impacts which must have occurred 65 million years ago ** Dinosaur restore Linda Konapka used a blowtorch Monday morning to melt and re-melt a rounded cylinder of steel until it hugged the ancient contours of a dorsal vertebrae of a Tyrannosaurus rex ** Canada comes to Australia A big piece of Canada is planting itself at the Australian Museum, visit the new 'Dinosaur Unearthed,' exhibition which features the live excavation of dinosaurs from massive rock slabs unearthed from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada ** Dinosaur Art Contest Artists and dinosaur enthusiasts ages five and up are invited to submit entries to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History's twelfth Dinosaur Art Contest and Exhibit. 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 ______________________________________________________________________ GET YOUR LOCAL MUSEUM TO ADD our RSS news feed to their web site, 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).