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 'graveyard' reveals first Asian triceratops In China's Shandong province, the 2-metre-long skull of a close relative of the famed horned dinosaur triceratops has been unearthed. It marks the first evidence that the group, called ceratopsids, ever lived outside western North America ** Collection of dinosaur fossils auctioned off Most of the items auctioned off by Maynards sold for much lower than estimated value, a boon for the dozens of budget-minded fossil hunters and palaeontology enthusiasts who gathered for the one-hour auction ** Palaeontologist Sereno earns award named for early dinosaur explorer Sereno is slated to receive the seventh annual Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award on Thursday, Jan. 22 at Beloit College in Wisconsin ** Dinosaur Provincial Park chosen as Canada's top natural wonder Dinosaur Provincial Park is part of the Canadian Badlands and one of the world's greatest fossil beds, with 39 dinosaur species having been unearthed there ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** Cities dig in to protect precious fossil sites The Japanese municipalities, which have been the sites of recent dinosaur fossil discoveries, want to prevent the smuggling of the prehistoric finds, which has become a major headache in other countries ** Feature Site - Natural History Museum Dino Directory Updated Seven new dinosaurs have been added - Albertaceratops, Lophostropheus, Oryctodromeus, Pantydraco, Shanag, Sinocalliopteryx, Urbacodon ** On the trail of giants in Utah's own Jurassic Park 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 ** Burpee's Big Find Gets More National Recognition The National Geographic Society selected Burpee Museum's discovery of dinosaur bones in Hanksville, Utah earlier this year as one of the top ten finds for fossils and dinosaurs this year ** Chinese scientists find huge dinosaur fossil field Scientists found over 3,000 fossilized dinosaur bones, including a 2-meter skull of a large horned Ceratopsian, the first such finding outside of North America ** The bone collector As a member of a recovery team for Paleo Prospectors, a group of palaeontology enthusiasts and researchers who lease more than 100,000 acres of Western dinosaur- and fossil-bearing ranch land, he recently helped excavate a duck-billed Edmontosaurus in North Dakota ** Pittsburgh Museum Curator Discovers Lost Worlds, Love Among Dino Bones We found that we'd have an opportunity to actually spend two months together in another country doing field work because we're both palaeontologists ______________________________________________________________________ HAVE FUN - JOIN US IN THE NEW DINOSAURNEWS SOCIAL NETWORK Add your dinosaur photos & debate ideas: http://dinosaurnews.ning.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ ** Stanford scientists scan birdlike dinosaur for evolution clues The researchers used synchrotron radiation, which produces intense X-ray beams, to build an elemental image of the creature ** Daddy day care: dinosaur fathers guarded the eggs You can call it dino daddy day care. Scientists who examined the fossilized remains of three types of medium-sized dinosaurs found with large clutches of eggs have concluded that the males rather than the females seem to have guarded the nests and brooded the eggs ** Top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of 2008 National Geographic News has outlined a list of the ten most read stories on dinosaurs and fossils in the year 2008 ** Jurassic of Western Portugal: Almost Morrison Those familiar with Dinosaur Ridge know about the discovery of Jurassic dinosaurs by Arthur Lakes in 1877 and, of course, the extensive dinosaur trackway being preserved and maintained by FoDR. DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine with bite! Read in 147 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/ . 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