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 ) ** Jurassic Park Novelist Dies The real breakthrough in the book was Crichton's ingenious intellectual synthesis, the way he created an amazingly plausible story out of a couple of different strands of then-new science ** Dinosaur invasion a museum first Dinosaur Dynasty is a huge dinosaur exhibit straight from China, so these are fossils that have never been seen in Winnipeg before ** Other Fossil News - Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs An eight-armed creature that looked more like a modern party favour than a living animal colonized a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged ** Dynamic Dinos The evolutionary link between prehistoric dinosaurs and modern, warm-blooded birds is just one aspect of paleontology to explore at "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries," a travelling exhibition that runs through Jan. 4 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science ** Site Of The Week - Raymond Alf Museum Holotypes Now Online The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology acts as a centre for paleontological education and research by maintaining and continually expanding its outstanding collection of specimens, presently numbering over 80,000 ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** Famous dinosaurs Earlier this year, I was fortunate to take my pupils to the dinosaur museum in Phu Wiang in the Isan region of Thailand ** What Big Teeth You Have: Was the Heterodontosaurus an Herbivore or a Carnivore or an Omnivore? If the sharp, conical teeth at the front of the dinosaur's mouth appeared at such a young age, perhaps Heterodontosaurus was omnivorous ** What is EarthQuest?: Unearthing the massive dinosaur-themed project "Dino" Don Lessem, a renowned dinosaur palaeontologist who reconstructed the world's largest dinosaur skeleton, is the man behind the idea for the project ** Tour digs into Utah's dinosaur sites When the giant meat eater, probably an allosaurus, walked across this spot about 150 million years ago, the landscape was a tropical environment on the shores of an inland sea, lush with ferns, cycads, conifers and ginkgo trees ** These dinos are made for walkin' It has probably been a while since anyone has seen a Brachiosaurus nearly bump its head on a Northern Kentucky University basketball arena scoreboard ______________________________________________________________________ HAVE FUN - JOIN US IN THE NEW DINOSAURNEWS SOCIAL NETWORK Add your dinosaur photos & debate ideas: http://dinosaurnews.ning.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ ** Palaeontologists sift Utah soil for plant fossils Palaeontologists are sifting through the soil of an excavated lot in search of ancient plants, the only ones from the early Jurassic period found so far in western North America. ** Tyrannosaurus rex noses out dinosaur competition Scientists at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, compared the size of their olfactory bulbs - the part of the brain regulating the sense of smell - in a wide range of carnivorous dinosaurs ** Moray dinosaur footprints to feature on TV The footprint trails at Clashach Quarry, near Hopeman, will be part of a film about geology in Moray DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine with bite! Read in 143 countries. 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).