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** Museum purchases Egg Mountain
The Museum of the Rockies is purchasing Egg Mountain, the patch of
northcentral Montana pasture land that became what is arguably the
best-known dinosaur boneyard in the world
** Big Stan - the man from 65m years ago
"This is the ultimate jigsaw puzzle," said Dr Phil Manning, curator of
palaeontology at the Manchester Museum, which is a part of the new
University of Manchester. "It's heavy and it's complicated, but it's
excellent fun."
** Fossil find supports 'four-winged birds' theory
The so-far unnamed creature, which lived between 124-million and 145-million
years ago, belonged to an extinct group of primitive flying birds called the
enantiornithines
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** Not Dinosaurs But: Mammoth task
Researchers armed with a sub-freezing lab and state-of-the-art equipment
plan to use advanced X-ray technology to peer inside the mammoth's head by
generating a 3-D map of its brain
** Scientists pinpoint pre-dinosaur extinction
Researcher Ian Metcalfe of UNE and others from the Berkeley Geochronology
Centre developed a technique that more precisely pinpoints the age of
minerals and rocks, using uranium-lead dating
** Dinosaur expert gives glimpse of the past
Palaeontologist Jack Horner, curator of palaeontology at the Museum of the
Rockies at Montana State University, who discovered the first dinosaur eggs
in the western hemisphere, recently spoke to Aspen Ridge students about his
theory regarding Tyrannosaurus rex being a scavenger rather than a predator
** Pre-Amir Dinosaur Is A Newcomer From America
Remains of a dinosaur new to Russia have been found in the town of
Blagoveshchensk and described by a Russian palaeontologist. Previously,
remains of the nearest relations of this pangolin - Kerberosaur - were found
only in North America
** Dinosaur named Sue stomps into Cedar Valley next spring
Sue is so large that she can't be contained inside the University Museum
itself
** Museum Paleo Team Finds Several Dinosaurs During Mexico Expedition
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