Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Site with bite! This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORIES visit: http://www.dinosaurnews.org ) ** Early fossil collectors sent Alberta treasures around the world Sometime before 1871, a Jesuit priest, Jean-Baptiste L'Heureux, was living with Native Americans in southern Alberta and it was during that time that he was shown bones of "the grandfather of the buffalo", or what was soon to be identified as the fossilized bones of dinosaurs ** The Greatest Dinosaur Hits of 2011 Even as 2011 drew to a close, the findings kept rolling in - from the way Deinonychus used its killer cutlery to the first record of sauropod dinosaurs from Antarctica and sexual selection among dinosaurs ** How to Turn a Dinosaur Into a Bird Since Jack Horner and James Gorman's book How to Build a Dinosaur debuted almost three years ago, periodic lectures, interviews and articles have piqued the public's curiosity about reverse-engineering a non-avian dinosaur from an avian one ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to Dinosaurnews - it's free! http://dinosaurnews.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8df2c3641c75466868062111d&id=6a5fcad6eb ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** A Mysterious Thumb Though my own suggestion is not any better than those I have been disappointed by, I wonder if the Iguanodon spike is a Mesozoic equivalent of another false thumb seen among animals today-the enlarged wrist bones of red and giant pandas ** Dinosaur track discovered on Mount Pelmo, Dolomites Close to the camp, in the middle of the ridge, geologist Francesco Sauro and speleologist Roberta Tanduo from Padua spotted a series of depressions resembling, due to their shape and disposition, dinosaur footprints ** Not Dinos But - The hunt for Mokele-mbembe: Congo's Loch Ness Monster To date, there have been more than 50 expeditions to the region, but no scientific evidence, unless you include the large claw-shaped footprint recorded by a French missionary in 1776, and by a number of others since ** On the border of China and Mongolia, you can find two dinosaurs french-kissing Outside of the 20,000-person Chinese town of Erlian on the Mongolian border, you can find this statue of two amorous sauropods making out for all the world to see ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/Dinosaurnews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** A keen-eyed kid paleontologist The four-year-old from Chelsea has a sharp eye and a love of dinosaurs and her devastating critique of a sloppy model triceratops, found on YouTube, has brought her special attention from the Canadian Museum of Nature ** 130 million-year-old Iguanodon dinosaur bone found in Sunderland back garden A "bizarre" bone from a dinosaur which walked the earth 130 million years ago has gone on display after being spotted among tree roots in a Sunderland back garden ** Who Wrote the First Dinosaur Novel? In the opening of his 1852 novel Bleak House, Charles Dickens used a Megalosaurus metaphor - the unpleasant weather had turned the streets in mud wallows better suited to prehistoric life than travelers of Victorian-era England ** When I grow up ... I want to be a dinosaur hunter "I was hooked," Carrano said recently, standing in the basement of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, where he was surrounded by big tables of fossils waiting to be chipped out of the rocks, where they have been embedded for millions of years ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Us on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/mydinosaurnews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Not Dinos But: Anomalocaris likely had thousands of eyes Working on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, the team of scientists announced the discovery on Wednesday, saying that they have discovered that Anomalocaris, one of the strangest and fiercest creatures from the Cambrian period, had an astounding number of lenses in each eye. ** New species of dinosaur discovered... in museum The fossilised remains of parts of the skull of the Spinops sternbergorum were discovered in 1916 by father-and-son fossil-collectors Charles and Levi Sternberg ** Oil Sands Fossil Needs Years of Work: Curator The Fort McMurray area has one of the largest crude oil reserves in the world, but it was once covered by a marine ocean known as the Albian Sea and home to countless ancient sea creatures ** New dinosaur species found A 66-million-year-old partial skeleton discovered in Saskatchewan has been confirmed as a new species of plant-eating dinosaur ** Dinosaur fossils in Singapore: Get ready for Twinky & friends The team behind the Republic's new natural history museum hopes to have two of the family of three dinosaurs here first, as soon as their 'citizenship' papers are settled ** Other Fossil News - World's oldest tiger species is discovered in China Although the skull of the more than 2-million-year-old fossil is smaller than most modern tigers, it appears very similar in shape ** North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies and the State Museum of Pennsylvania has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur ** Rex Riders - A Rip-Roaring Read Take a pinch of Aliens, a dash of dinosaurs and mix them with a Western main ingredient and you have the recipe for a rip-roaring good children's read. ** "Dinosaurs in L.A.'s Backyard" Float Features Three Stars From New Dinosaur Hall The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) first-ever float joined the 123rd Rose Parade as it began its world-famous descent down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California. 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