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 ) ** GSI rejects dinosaur nesting site claim Available evidence does not indicate a dinosaur nesting site at Senthurai in Ariyalur district, as reported recently by researchers from Periyar University in Salem ** Not Dinos But - Darwinopterus points to chunky evolution Fossils of the flying reptiles, also known as pterosaurs, have so far fallen into two categories: primitive, long-tailed lizards and their gigantic, short-tailed descendants ** Dinos trampled after death by own kind Palaeontologists say analysis of a vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were trampled by other dinosaurs shortly after they died ** Huge dinosaur find in China 'may include new species' Scientists in Zhucheng city, Shandong province, have for months been exploring a gully over 500 metres (1,650 feet) long and 26 metres deep that is strewn with thousands of dinosaur bones ** World's Smallest Baby Dinosaur Footprint Discovered The world's smallest baby dinosaur's footprint measuring 1.27 cm by 1.06 cm has been discovered in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province ______________________________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Join one of the World's largest dinomail lists. Simply send an email to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________ ** Bizarre Dinosaurs: Why Were Some So Strange? Palaeontologists say that these seemingly strange appendages and body parts developed for a reason, although in some cases, it's still not clear exactly what some of those reasons were ** Nebraskan's fossils add up to dinosaur tail My dad would load us up for a vacation, and every creek we'd stop at, we'd look for bones and fossils and whatever we could find ** New San Antonio dinosaur museum opens Native to San Antonio, Dinosaur George has created a travelling museum that features more dinosaurs than most history museums and delivers an experience not typical in the usual museum ** A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed? Many dinosaurs may be facing a new kind of extinction-a controversial theory suggests as many as a third of all known dinosaur species never existed in the first place ** Paper Challenges Ideas About 'Early Bird' Dinosaur Now scientists examining tiny pieces of a specimen's long bone under powerful microscopes for the first time said they found unexpected patterns indicating that the species grew at a rate faster than living reptiles but only one-third as fast as that of modern birds ______________________________________________________________________ HAVE FUN - JOIN THE 67 MEMBERS OF THE DINOSAURNEWS SOCIAL NETWORK Add your dinosaur photos, make friends & debate ideas: http://dinosaurnews.ning.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ ** Other Fossils News - Chinese fossil find gives clue to ear's evolution Researchers digging in north eastern China say they have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal that could help explain how human hearing evolved ** How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes A new investigation of a fossilized tracksite in southern Africa shows how early dinosaurs made on-the-fly adjustments to their movements to cope with slippery and sloping terrain ** Rare Evidence Of Dinosaur Cannibalism: Meat-Eater Tooth Found In Gorgosaurus Jawbone Analysis of the wound in the jawbone showed the bite was applied with the same force as a two tonne great white shark ** Jurassic site treasure looted by villagers Barely weeks after scientists unearthed a Jurassic age treasure in the form of hundreds of dinosaur eggs in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, local villagers and students are looting and damaging the precious fossils _____________________________________________________________________ DINO-TWEETS - real time dino news as it happens 24X7 Follow Us On Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/mydinosaurnews _____________________________________________________________________ ** Biggest ever dinosaur footprints found in France Imprints measuring up to 2 metres (6ft 6in) in diameter and stretching over a vast area of land have been uncovered near the village of Plagne, 30 miles west of Geneva ** Dinosaurs & Company Sat Oct 17, 2009 - Sun Jan31, 2010. 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