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** Fossil expert talks to students
Ten years ago a discovery in a quarry on a secluded ranch brought Dr. Art
Chadwick, an expert in fossil excavation, to eastern Wyoming
** Ancient fossil likely to be immature dinosaur tooth
A fossil that seems to be an immature tooth from a Tambaryu, one of the
largest herbivorous dinosaurs believed to have existed in Japan, has been
discovered in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture
** Late-Jurassic frog fossils return to Basin's Dinosaur National Monument
Two slabs of late-Jurassic frog fossils have returned to Dinosaur National
Monument after more than a decade at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
in Pittsburgh
** Joining the dinosaur treasure hunt
What could motivate a bunch of people to spend six weeks of their summer
sitting on a Gippsland beach chipping away at rock?
** Lid comes off dinosaur
One of the rarest dinosaur fossils ever discovered - a scientific marvel
that has already altered conventional wisdom - feels like a basketball.
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** Out of Old Africa: Dinosaur chaser Paul Sereno learns the story behind
the bones
The University of Chicago palaeontologist has discovered a dozen new
dinosaur species, among them the world's oldest and most primitive known
dinosaur - the Eoraptor, or "dawn raptor."
** ther Fossil News - Bizarre-looking creature comes to light
The prehistoric Pterodaustro would probably have used its teeth to scoop
microscopic organisms out of the water as the modern flamingo does
** Dinosaurs Roamed Near Nation's Capital
Until recently, evidence for dinosaurs in the north-eastern United States
was sparse, but over 900 theropod, sauropod, ankylosaur and ornithopod
fossilized footprints have now been found just a short drive from the
nation's capital, according to new studies
** Not Dinos But - Sea reptile is biggest on record
A fossilised "sea monster" unearthed on an Arctic island is the largest
marine reptile known to science, Norwegian scientists have announced
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** Nova - "The Four-Winged Dinosaur"
While in no way belittling those who study dinosaurs, it feels as though
anytime a science documentary series is not quite sure what to do their next
episode about dinosaurs are trotted out
** Dinosaur digging in Bozeman
The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman is offering a chance to do a little bit
of dinosaur digging
** Museum display examines link between dinosaurs, birds
"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a dinosaur" reads the sign that sits
outside a new exhibit at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in downtown
Mesa
** Dead reckoning
In 1999, Alaska artist Ray Troll and Colorado palaeontologist Kirk Johnson
collaborated on the travelling exhibit "Cruising the Fossil Freeway."
** Study Commences on Dinosaur Extinction in India
Experts believe that mass emission of poisonous gases from big volcanic
eruptions over 65 million years ago in south India was responsible for
dinosaur deaths, and drilling into the earth could help determine if this
was so
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