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 ) ** Dino mighty Crews from the Wyoming Dinosaur Centre in Thermopolis, Wyoming, have done extensive excavating to uncover bones from six different dinosaurs, the largest being a Supersaurus which usually grew to 130 feet long, and the smallest, a Theropod ** Not Dinos But - Pterosaurs Didn't Fish While Flying They concluded that pterosaurs weighing more than 1 kilogram might have found skimming impossible, with their bills dragging almost like oars ** Kansas City area palaeontologists to lead commercial fossil dig in Montana Hell Creek is a layer of rocks that stretches from the eastern half of Montana into Wyoming and the Dakotas, where dinosaur bones date from the late Cretaceous Period, roughly 65 million years ago ** A four-day hike through prehistory on the Dinotour Dinotour is a fundraiser for Calgary's Dinosaur Research Institute, which sponsors just over $50,000 in paleontology studies and expeditions annually - about 10 per cent of which goes to projects headed by Currie and his wife, palaeobotanist Eva Koppelhus. A passion for dinosaurs, and each other ** Dinosaurs Started Having S#x Young Knowing when dinosaurs were capable of s#x could shed light on which of the morphological features seen in fossils might be used in courtship displays and other behaviours ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** New dinosaur bone beds unearthed While many of the province's top dinosaur hunters excavate the area around Drumheller, a college professor, an Italian graduate student and an investment banker spend their free time combing the grounds of Grande Prairie some 800 kilometres away ** Dinosaurs, Ancestors Coexisted Researchers report in the journal Science they have evidence from northern New Mexico that dinosaurs and their precursor species coexisted for tens of millions of years ** Jurassic park down under This is the heart of Australia's richest dinosaur and marine reptile fossil country, and the 550km Dinosaur Trail showcases the greatest discoveries of its ancient past ** PBS program features dinosaur research An upcoming episode of PBS television's "NOVA scienceNOW" will feature groundbreaking home-grown research that was conducted by Montana researchers on a Montana dinosaur ** China's fossil hunter - a rock star of palaeontology At a recent unveiling of perhaps his most spectacular discovery - a chicken-like creature as big as a Tyrannosaurus - camera crews clamoured to picture him next to the huge bones he had stumbled upon in the rich fossil reserves of the northern Inner Mongolia region ** Giant dinosaur stars in rescued Berlin museum The world's biggest dinosaur skeleton returned to the city's natural history museum to mark the first stage of a Euro128m renovation project for the war-damaged building ** Sharks, dinos were both predators as well as each other's prey Sharks and dinosaurs in prehistoric Europe served as prey for each other, according to a new review of vertebrate fossils found in the Galve region of Northeast Spain ** China dinosaur exhibit revives prehistoric beasts Besides looking out for the 10.5 meters (34 ft) tall, plant-eating Omeisaurus, organizers advise dinosaur buffs to examine the rare head fossil of the carnivorous Yangchuanosaurus, considered a national treasure DINOSAURNEWS webzine now read in 88 countries. 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