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** Talk on dinosaurs slated this week
Wegweiser, an affiliate curator with the museum from Powell, Wyo., will
discuss her discovery of preserved dinosaur skin at the talk entitled
"Dinosaur Mummies of the Cretaceous."
** Not Dinosaurs But: Museum fails to smell a rat
Staff did not notice that the rat was out of place amid the museum's usual
fare of dinosaur bones and artefacts from the animal kingdom
** Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
Trilobites, the primitive shelled creatures considered by many to be among
the first animals to appear in the fossil record, may have originated in a
place known today largely for its barren lifelessness: Siberia
** Scientists in dust-up among the dinosaurs
Scientists at the Natural History Museum, renowned for its display of
dinosaur skeletons, have accused two directors of improper behaviour,
wasting public money and creating a "culture of fear"
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** Zoo Adding Dinosaur Exhibit
Franklin Park officials are hoping the exhibit will boost overall attendance
this summer and attract visits from delegates to the Democratic National
Convention
** Palaeontologists Use Computer to "Morph" Deformed Fossils Back to Their
Original Shapes
It's bad enough that fossils, buried deep in layers of rock for thousands or
millions of years, may be damaged or missing pieces, but what really
challenges palaeontologists, according to University at Buffalo researchers,
is the amount of deformation that most fossils exhibit
** Feature Site: Two Medicine Dinosaur Centre
The Two Medicine Dinosaur Centre is involved with several research projects
and research to date has led to several publications
** Get a dino's-eye view of a big, big asteroid
Want to see what it would have been like to be 100 miles away from the
humongous impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago?
** Curator shares dino toys at Mesa SW Museum
He also leads the museum's excavations in south-eastern Arizona that are
turning up many fossils of camels, horses, elephants, turtles and occasional
dinosaurs that lived more 65 million years ago in what used to be sea coasts
near Safford and Sonoita
** Utah Friends of Palaeontology Annual Meeting & Symposium
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now filed online
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