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Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine
with bite!
This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org )
** Fossils of new meat-eating dinos found
Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating
dinosaurs in Africa
** Dino trip ends; lost world found
Knowledge of Africa's Cretaceous world started with the pioneering work of
French and German palaeontologists, but their work, often conducted alone
and on camelback, was fragmentary
** Not Dinos But - Primitive bat fossil settles sonar dispute
The discovery of the most primitive bat species known to date has settled a
long running dispute about how their unique features evolved
** Fossil from Liaoning flies into evolutionary history
This is an exciting find because it's "the smallest pterosaur, which lived
in trees, the smallest toothless pterosaur and the smallest Cretaceous
pterosaur found in the world"
** Discovery Channel to feature MSU's Jack Horner
An upcoming Discovery Channel documentary on the possibility of re-creating
dinosaurs will feature Montana State University palaeontologist Jack Horner
** Dinosaur Digestive Tracts Were Biochemical Marvels
By mimicking the guts of the biggest dinosaurs, scientists now find the
animals' diets of evergreens and ferns were more nourishing than previously
thought
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** Site of Interest - eBay
If you have never done it before visit eBay's Dinosaur and Reptile fossils
section.
** Feature Site - Microraptor on Nova
Microraptor might have been a primitive relict of the ancestral form living
side-by-side with a full-fledged flier like the crow-sized Confuciusornis,
just as modern lemurs retain the primitive body plan of our distant primate
ancestors
** Is Dinosaur National Monument's staff going the way of its namesakes?
Some palaeontologists worry that the cuts will erode a core mission and
possibly endanger some of the world's most famous bones
** U. scientists say species discovery puts Mexico on the dinosaur map
Mexico has been terra incognita for dinosaurs for years, but that is rapidly
changing after a multinational team led by University of Utah scientists
extracted a skeleton from a quarry outside Saltillo and assembled a skull of
striking singularity - a hatchet-faced, duck-billed specimen whose elongated
nasal passages could have emitted a Cretaceous love song
** Other Fossil News - Scientists say 80 million-year-old fossil may be
missing link to modern crocodiles
The fossil of the 5.5-foot-long predator was found in 2004 near the small
city of Monte Alto, 215 miles northwest of Sao Paulo
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** Cal Paleo
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paleontology conference hosted by institutions in California.
** David B. Jones Internship / Morris Skinner Memorial Internship Royal, NE
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park will conduct an extensive
excavation to prepare for a new fossil bed enclosure scheduled for
construction late this year.
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