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 ) ** What Killed The Dinosaurs? New Evidence Perplexes Scientists Splashing through a shallow creek in suburban New Jersey, the palaeontologists stepped back 65 million years to the time of the last mass extinction, the one notable for the demise of the dinosaurs ** Dinosaurs in Their Natural Habitat A meat-eating allosaurus is looking for food, and spies a baby apatosaurus, cowering beneath its mother ** Talking fossils with a digger If you have a good specimen, such as a skull, then we do something called micro CT analysis, which is where we take micro virtual x-ray slices of the object then reproduce a 3D image ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** The Folklore of Footprints in Stone: From Classical Antiquity to the Present An article by Adrienne Mayor who is an independent folklorist/historian of science investigating natural knowledge contained in pre-scientific myths and oral traditions (pdf) ** Royal Ontario Museum's New Permanent Galleries to Open Next Month Highlights include fossils of marine reptiles, a Hadrosaur, the ROM's famous Parasaurolophus, the complete skeletal cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex and an authentic Triceratops skull ** Dinosaurs breathed like penguins Dinosaurs like Velociraptors owe their fearsome reputation to the way they breathed, according to a UK study ** Not Dinos But - Did birds fly from ground up or trees down? Fossil evidence uncovered the past 15 years suggests early birds got the worms because they lived on the ground ** China tries farmers for fossil fight Seven farmers from central China face trial for fighting officials who tried to take control of a lucrative lode of dinosaur fossils ** Tyrrell Museum exhibit features brains behind bones A new exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum puts a friendly face on a hall full of sharp-toothed killing machines ______________________________________________________________ GET YOUR OWN DINOSAURNEWS WIDGET - Now you can have the latest Dino news on your own Blog or Web site. http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/dinosaurnews ______________________________________________________________ ** Utah dinosaur may have had a Chinese cousin The fierce, long-clawed Utahraptor apparently had a distant cousin when it roamed the prehistoric wilds of southern Utah 120 million years ago ** Berlin's natural history Museum A replica of his head is the only true-to-life reconstruction which protrudes from a glass ** Amur Region To Make Money on Dinosaur Bones In the region's south it is planned to develop such projects as Dinosaurs of Asia, based on the Dinosaur graveyard near the city of Blagoveschensk ** Other Fossil News - New Mammal Fossil Sheds Light on Teeth Evolution Along with the new find, the discoveries suggest that mammals underwent tremendous diversification during the middle of the Jurassic period ** Outback Queensland gets international dinosaur attention Outback Queensland has become the focus of an international research project that is helping to decipher the evolution of Australian dinosaurs and their relationships to those of other southern continents DINOSAURNEWS webzine now read in 104 countries. 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