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** Shark-Eating Dino Fossil Found in Utah
A Utah site frozen in Early Jurassic time recently yielded discoveries that
include an enormous, previously unknown carnivorous dinosaur, a new shark
species, at least three other new fish and three new trees
** Dinosaurs at home in Holladay
The retired state palaeontologist has devoted most of his life to everything
Jurassic, from coordinating massive fossil digs in the '60s to helping his
kids run a family business with some bite in it in 2007
** UCC welcomes paleoartist
Hallett's passion for prehistoric creatures and ancient worlds led him to
specialization as a paleoartist, who researches and recreates the life of
the past
** Other Fossil News - South America's Missing Mammals
The rocks were the right age - geologists then assumed that most rocks along
the main spine of the Chilean Andes dated back at least 65 million to 100
million years, to the latter part of the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs
reigned supreme
** Fossil hunters get shale break
Martin took our group on a two-kilometre walk out to the football-field
sized Centrosaurus Bone Bed where more than 300 centrosaurus skeletons have
been identified
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** Mud flies over dinosaur tracks
A University of Alberta scientist's once-in-a-lifetime dinosaur discovery in
Croatia has turned into a nightmare, after a rival team of European
researchers raced to the site of the find and published their own study -
without crediting the Canadian and his colleagues
** 'Uncle Lou' digs dinos
While in Malawi, he and his team discovered hundreds of fossils and the
remains of a new dinosaur, which he christened, the Malawisaurus
** Not Dinos But - Early Life on Earth May Have Been Purple, Not Green
Ancient microbes might have used a molecule other than chlorophyll to
harness the Sun's rays - one that would have given the organisms a violet
hue
** Dinosaurs to join terracotta warriors in Shaanxi
Shaanxi Province is gearing up to relive prehistory with a 220 million yuan
(28.2 million U.S. dollars) dinosaur theme park, and is hoping to attract a
few tourists in the process.
** In Startling Advance, Study Identifies Dinosaur Protein
In a retrieval once thought unattainable, scientists have recovered and
identified proteins in a bone of a well-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex that
lived and died and was fossilized 68 million years ago
** Rediscovering the Dinosaurs
Skeleton by skeleton - in fact, bone by bone - he and his colleagues are
overseeing the rebuilding of their dinosaurs
** Site unveils daily lives of dinosaurs
What makes it really unique is that it actually places its hands down in the
sediment, so it rested its hands down on the muddy surface
** Museum of Geology Summer Field Paleo Classes
The Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City is
offering a number of field paleo classes available for graduate or
undergraduate credit, or just for the fun of getting your hands dirty in the
field.
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