Roger <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine >with bite! > >This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORIES visit: >http://www.dinosaurnews.org ) > >** When dinosaurs bite >Tyrannosaurus rex's name means "tyrant lizard": its moniker reflecting the >carnage supposedly wrecked by this famous ancient reptile's huge jaws and >rows of impressive teeth > >** Full Marine Reptile Skeleton Found in Alaska >It was the low tide that made the discovery possible as a rare marine >creature called Thalattosaurs was submerged in water and rocks > >** Largest-ever dinosaur tooth marks found in S Korea >Paik and his team from the Environmental Sciences Department of Pukyong >National University in Pusan found the tooth marks in the tailbone of a >mature Pukyongosaurus, a four-legged herbivore that lived on the Korean >peninsula during the early Cretaceous Period some 120 million years ago > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Subscribe to Dinosaurnews - it's free! >http://dinosaurnews.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8df2c3641c75466868062111d&id=6a5fcad6eb > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >** How dinosaurs put proteins into long-term storage >How does one prove that the protein isolated from a 68-million-year-old >dinosaur bone is not a contamination from the intervening millenia or from >the lab? > >** Dinosaur Dreams >In a few weeks I'll head out to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico - a place chock-full >of Triassic dinosaurs that I have been meaning to visit for quite some >time - and in September I'll be off to Grand Staircase-Escalante National >Monument > >** Not Dinos But: Mosasaur: How a reptile came to dominate the seas >Within the span of roughly 27 million years, these predators transformed >from an animal with limited swimming ability and limbs still meant for >walking into a sleek, fishlike form > >** What dinosaur eggs reveal about male attractiveness >Dr. Apostolou argues that a man hoping to mate should create the human >equivalent of a peacock tail: a collection > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Like Us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/Dinosaurnews > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >** Acristavus: North America's New Hadrosaur >Often called the "cows of the Cretaceous," these big herbivores are often >cast as relatively uninteresting animals that primarily served as fodder for >the more charismatic tyrannosaurs and other predators > >** Museum of Rockies to tour Asia >Millions of visitors are expected to see an exhibit on current dinosaur >research from the Museum of the Rockies that is scheduled to tour throughout >Asia over the next three years > >** Research Sheds Light On South Pole Dinosaurs >Dog-sized dinosaurs that lived near the South Pole, sometimes in the dark >for months at a time, had bone tissue very similar to dinosaurs that lived >everywhere on the planet, according to a doctoral candidate at Montana State >University > >** Dinosaur Hall Roars To Life In Los Angeles >The centerpiece of the revamped exhibit are three Tyrannosaurus rex >skeletons, including the youngest known T. rex fossil in the world (see >above) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Follow Us on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/mydinosaurnews > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >** Visiting Haddonfield, N.J., where the first entire dinosaur skeleton was >discovered >William Parker Foulke was visiting a friend in Haddonfield when he heard >that some giant bones had been found in a nearby marl pit > >** The ROM's dinosaur-hunter, deep in Alberta's badlands >He can spot an inch-long bone amid a pile of rocks, and know instantly that >millions of years ago it belonged to a dromaeosaur, the feathered, >sickle-clawed family of dinosaurs commonly referred to as raptors > >** Dinosaur Egg Clutches, Not as Simple as Chicken Eggs >Observation of egg clutches allows for greater interpretation of dinosaur >reproductive behaviors and the depositional paleoenvironment of the clutch >than looking at the individual eggs alone > >** 70 million years ago, supercrocodile Minas Gerais was eating dinosaurs >Montefeltro found that this type of species of crocodile had records not >only in Triangulo Mineiro, but other species of the group were recorded in >Sao Paulo and Argentina > >** Celebrities Rally to Support New Alberta Dinosaur Museum >Alberta may be one step closer to getting a new dinosaur museum, thanks to >the support of celebrities such as Dan Aykroyd and international media >attention brought to the project > >** Oldest Bird Was Actually a Dinosaur >Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has >just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes >this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur > >For the FULL STORIES visit: 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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