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** Dino mighty
Crews from the Wyoming Dinosaur Centre in Thermopolis, Wyoming, have done
extensive excavating to uncover bones from six different dinosaurs, the
largest being a Supersaurus which usually grew to 130 feet long, and the
smallest, a Theropod
** Not Dinos But - Pterosaurs Didn't Fish While Flying
They concluded that pterosaurs weighing more than 1 kilogram might have
found skimming impossible, with their bills dragging almost like oars
** Kansas City area palaeontologists to lead commercial fossil dig in
Montana
Hell Creek is a layer of rocks that stretches from the eastern half of
Montana into Wyoming and the Dakotas, where dinosaur bones date from the
late Cretaceous Period, roughly 65 million years ago
** A four-day hike through prehistory on the Dinotour
Dinotour is a fundraiser for Calgary's Dinosaur Research Institute, which
sponsors just over $50,000 in paleontology studies and expeditions
annually - about 10 per cent of which goes to projects headed by Currie and
his wife, palaeobotanist Eva Koppelhus. A passion for dinosaurs, and each
other
** Dinosaurs Started Having S#x Young
Knowing when dinosaurs were capable of s#x could shed light on which of the
morphological features seen in fossils might be used in courtship displays
and other behaviours
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** New dinosaur bone beds unearthed
While many of the province's top dinosaur hunters excavate the area around
Drumheller, a college professor, an Italian graduate student and an
investment banker spend their free time combing the grounds of Grande
Prairie some 800 kilometres away
** Dinosaurs, Ancestors Coexisted
Researchers report in the journal Science they have evidence from northern
New Mexico that dinosaurs and their precursor species coexisted for tens of
millions of years
** Jurassic park down under
This is the heart of Australia's richest dinosaur and marine reptile fossil
country, and the 550km Dinosaur Trail showcases the greatest discoveries of
its ancient past
** PBS program features dinosaur research
An upcoming episode of PBS television's "NOVA scienceNOW" will feature
groundbreaking home-grown research that was conducted by Montana researchers
on a Montana dinosaur
** China's fossil hunter - a rock star of palaeontology
At a recent unveiling of perhaps his most spectacular discovery - a
chicken-like creature as big as a Tyrannosaurus - camera crews clamoured to
picture him next to the huge bones he had stumbled upon in the rich fossil
reserves of the northern Inner Mongolia region
** Giant dinosaur stars in rescued Berlin museum
The world's biggest dinosaur skeleton returned to the city's natural history
museum to mark the first stage of a Euro128m renovation project for the
war-damaged building
** Sharks, dinos were both predators as well as each other's prey
Sharks and dinosaurs in prehistoric Europe served as prey for each other,
according to a new review of vertebrate fossils found in the Galve region of
Northeast Spain
** China dinosaur exhibit revives prehistoric beasts
Besides looking out for the 10.5 meters (34 ft) tall, plant-eating
Omeisaurus, organizers advise dinosaur buffs to examine the rare head fossil
of the carnivorous Yangchuanosaurus, considered a national treasure
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