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** Travel guide lists dino-destinations
Drumheller, Alta., home of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, is the "dinosaur
capital of the world," says the new Random House Dinosaur Travel Guide by
Kelly Milner Halls
** Paleontologists hope new exhibit at The Journey will turn more kids
toward science careers
Three of the country's leading paleontologists, Pete Larson and Neal Larson
of the Black Hills Institute of Geologic Research and Larry Agenbroad of The
Mammoth Site, believe that seeing these fossils will help develop new
scientists
** Can dassie dung save the planet?
Scientists across the world are turning to ancient faeces - or, as they are
known scientifically, coprolites - for answers about the past
** Dig in and get your hands dirty
This summer, take a week to yourself to journey through time to the land of
dinosaurs with the EnCana Badlands Science Camp presented by the Royal
Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller
** Insight into the evolution of avian flight from a new clade of Early
Cretaceous ornithurines from China and the morphology of Yixianornis grabaui
The complex changes in morphology that occurred between the earliest form of
avian flapping flight and the emergence of the flight capabilities of extant
birds remain comparatively little explored
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** Museum unveils world's largest T-rex skull
The world's largest Tyrannosaurus rex skull, unearthed nearly 40 years ago
in eastern Montana, is now on display at the Museum of the Rockies at
Montana State University in Bozeman
** Ancient dinosaur eggs leave exhibition visitor fooled
Shopper Yuen Kit-ying, who initially paid little attention to the dinosaur
eggs because she thought they were fakes, was delighted to find they were
genuine
** Thai Road gang unearths dinosaur fossils
Dinosaur remains were discovered in three large deposits, about 20-30 metres
apart, which were unearthed by backhoes during construction of the Nong Bua
Lam Phu-Udon Thani road in tambon Noan Tan of Nong Bua Lam Phu's Muang
district
** Fossil eggs come out of their shell
Gerald Grellet-Tinner of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
and colleagues used electron and light microscopes to examine fossil eggs of
six species of dinosaur from the Cretaceous
** Fish that took the first step for mankind
Tiktaalik roseae, which lived about 375 million years ago, is a new species
with features that blur the distinction between fish and terrestrial limbed
creatures, placing it closer to animal life's transition from water to land
than any known fossil
** Dino Jaws - The Natural History Museum, London
** Call For Students - Interested in pursuing a career in the earth/life
sciences?
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