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** CU-Boulder research team discovers evidence of gut parasite in dinosaur
Assistant Professor Karen Chin of CU-Boulder's geological sciences
department and former graduate student Justin Tweet identified more than 200
suspected parasite burrows in 17 samples of gut material from the dinosaur
that most likely were made by tiny worms similar to annelids and nematodes
that infest animals today
** Other Fossil News - Oregon Research Discovers Oldest Bee, Key To
Evolution of Flowering Plants
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered the oldest bee ever
known, a 100-million-year-old specimen preserved in almost lifelike form in
amber and an important link to help explain the rapid expansion of flowering
plants during that distant period
** Utah scientists discover new horned dinosaur fossil
The find by palaeontologists Jim Kirkland and Don DeBlieux was announced
Friday at a conference of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontologists in
Ontario, Canada
** Director dreams of new dinosaurs
As the executive director of the Jurupa Mountains Cultural Centre, Burns is
looking for a torosaurus, or bull lizard, and various cousins of the
triceratops - all dinosaurs she wants to add to the 15 already at the
cultural centre
** Trotting with emus to walk with dinosaurs
One way to make sense of 165-million-year-old dino tracks may be to hang out
with emus, say palaeontologists studying thousands of dinosaur footprints at
the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern Wyoming
** New evidence questions theory of dinosaurs' extinction
Princeton University palaeontologist Gerda Keller has pieced a new story
together on the basis of microscopic fossils such as those she dug out of
the rocky soil around the Brazos River near Rosebud, Texas
** Dinosaur Exhibition Will Be Revealed To Students At Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth will leave hundreds of students in awe, when they see a
dinosaur display at the royal palace
** Bloodthirsty Dinosaur Leaving Home
Marusya the Tyrannosaurus Rex came out of the second-floor window on
Kutuzovsky Prospekt and stared angrily at the sky
** Not Dinos But: Biggest bird of all terrorised the plains
Weighing perhaps 180 kilograms, the bird most likely preyed on rodents the
size of sheep that once grazed on the South American savannah
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** Museum wins dinosaur show rights
The Otago Museum has scored a double coup, winning rights to stage a major
Chinese dinosaurs travelling show and also gaining a big exhibition from the
prestigious Shanghai Museum
** Fins of Ancient Marine Reptile Like Fiberglass
A prehistoric sea reptile propelled itself with fins reinforced by a
fiberglass-like mesh, a new study finds
** Irish Sea meteor may have created T-rex
A huge meteorite that hit the Irish Sea and left a massive crater is thought
to have been responsible for giant dinosaurs coming to dominate the plane
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