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 ) ** Korean Cretaceous Dinosaur Coast seeks World Heritage status The site is said to hold high archaeological value, as the footprints of the archaeopteryxes are the biggest in the world and those of two ** Fossil reptiles mired in controversy An ethics row has broken out among palaeontologists over the naming of aetosaurs, a type of ancient armoured reptile ** These horseshoe crabs crawled beneath dinosaurs Two nearly complete small horseshoe crab fossils discovered in Canada reveal a new genus, pushing their origins back at least 100 million years earlier than previously thought ** Palaeontologist won't back down on theory of dinosaur extinction Keller says her examination of rock and soil samples taken from the region shows that the meteor that caused the crater crashed to Earth about 300,000 years before the end of the Cretaceous period ** UT's dinosaur footprints to be preserved A set of prehistoric dinosaur prints at the University Texas - currently being housed in a small building near the Texas Memorial Museum - are some of the best preserved in the country ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** Other Fossil News - Fossil-rich ravine at mercy of plunderers Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world's premier site for the study of species from the Permian period ** Duckbilled dinosaur coming back to North Dakota The 65-million-year-old fossilized hadrosaur found in North Dakota's Badlands a decade ago has been studied by palaeontologists, had its innards scanned by NASA and starred in a National Geographic television documentary ** Plenty of work for dinosaur buffs in Queensland's west Mr Elliot has since located 16 dinosaur sites on Belmont alone and is working with the Queensland Museum to prepare the bones of two Sauropods excavated on the property in the past few years ** Decoding dinos Ohio University postdoctoral fellow Andrew Lee has turned a love of dinosaurs into a career, and making groundbreaking discoveries about dinosaur growth ** Triceratops skeleton up for Paris auction The skeleton of the three-horned dinosaur, from a private European collection, is the highlight of the April 16 auction ** Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth 65 million years ago ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________ ** Other Fossil News - Fossil suggests platypus lived in dinosaur times Australian scientists have discovered that the platypus is significantly older than previously thought: it may have been around since 120 million years ago, meaning it lived alongside the dinosaurs ** Field Position Fruita, Colorado The Museum of Western Colorado has an opening for a summer field position at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry (Morrison Formation) ** 9th Annual Paleontology Symposium First "Call for Papers" for the 9th Annual Paleontology Symposium at the Kansas Academy of Science annual meeting. www.oceansofkansas.com ** Physical Science Technician Hagerman, ID Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine with bite! First published in 1998 and still going strong http://www.dinosaurnews.org ========================================================= 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).