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** Seismosaur cut down to size
Though drastically shorter, the new length estimate does not necessarily
knock Seismosaurus off the throne as the Earth's longest creature, says
palaeontologist Spencer Lucas of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History
and Science
** Pupils' eyes fixed on dinosaur relics
Teacher Margaret McDonald said the children were making the most of the
opportunity and utterly enjoyed the chance to hold fossils up to
85-million-years-old
** Not Dinosaurs But: Tortoise fossil on view at Sierra College
Geology professor and local dinosaur expert Richard Hilton unveiled the
fossil remains of a giant tortoise believed to be an unidentified species
that roamed Northern California 3 million years ago
** Experts rattle bones of dinosaur theory
In a talk that raised eyebrows, Kevin Padian of the University of California
at Berkeley proposed that "bizarre features" on dinosaurs, including the
neck frill of Triceratops and the plates on the backs of stegosaurs, evolved
to help dinosaurs recognize members of their same species
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** Bringing the Lost World of Dinosaurs to Life
In Manhattan, a lost world is taking shape in a huge workshop at the
American Museum of Natural History.
** Plentiful fossils of dinosaur contemporary allow population study
Dinosaurs ruled the earth for hundreds of millions of years, then
disappeared so completely that to find even a partially complete skeleton of
a single multi-ton animal is rare
** China catches dinosaur egg smugglers
Chinese customs officers have arrested four people for attempting to smuggle
more than 1,000 dinosaur eggs and rare fossils to the United States
** Other Fossil News: Museum Fossils
A Smith Centre man who has collected 3,500 fossils plans to donate the
collection to the Rolling Hills Wildlife Museum in Salina
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