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** GSI rejects dinosaur nesting site claim
Available evidence does not indicate a dinosaur nesting site at Senthurai in
Ariyalur district, as reported recently by researchers from Periyar
University in Salem
** Not Dinos But - Darwinopterus points to chunky evolution
Fossils of the flying reptiles, also known as pterosaurs, have so far fallen
into two categories: primitive, long-tailed lizards and their gigantic,
short-tailed descendants
** Dinos trampled after death by own kind
Palaeontologists say analysis of a vast collection of broken dinosaur bones
unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were trampled by other dinosaurs
shortly after they died
** Huge dinosaur find in China 'may include new species'
Scientists in Zhucheng city, Shandong province, have for months been
exploring a gully over 500 metres (1,650 feet) long and 26 metres deep that
is strewn with thousands of dinosaur bones
** World's Smallest Baby Dinosaur Footprint Discovered
The world's smallest baby dinosaur's footprint measuring 1.27 cm by 1.06 cm
has been discovered in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province
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** Bizarre Dinosaurs: Why Were Some So Strange?
Palaeontologists say that these seemingly strange appendages and body parts
developed for a reason, although in some cases, it's still not clear exactly
what some of those reasons were
** Nebraskan's fossils add up to dinosaur tail
My dad would load us up for a vacation, and every creek we'd stop at, we'd
look for bones and fossils and whatever we could find
** New San Antonio dinosaur museum opens
Native to San Antonio, Dinosaur George has created a travelling museum that
features more dinosaurs than most history museums and delivers an experience
not typical in the usual museum
** A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed?
Many dinosaurs may be facing a new kind of extinction-a controversial theory
suggests as many as a third of all known dinosaur species never existed in
the first place
** Paper Challenges Ideas About 'Early Bird' Dinosaur
Now scientists examining tiny pieces of a specimen's long bone under
powerful microscopes for the first time said they found unexpected patterns
indicating that the species grew at a rate faster than living reptiles but
only one-third as fast as that of modern birds
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** Other Fossils News - Chinese fossil find gives clue to ear's evolution
Researchers digging in north eastern China say they have discovered the
fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal that could help explain
how human hearing evolved
** How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes
A new investigation of a fossilized tracksite in southern Africa shows how
early dinosaurs made on-the-fly adjustments to their movements to cope with
slippery and sloping terrain
** Rare Evidence Of Dinosaur Cannibalism: Meat-Eater Tooth Found In
Gorgosaurus Jawbone
Analysis of the wound in the jawbone showed the bite was applied with the
same force as a two tonne great white shark
** Jurassic site treasure looted by villagers
Barely weeks after scientists unearthed a Jurassic age treasure in the form
of hundreds of dinosaur eggs in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, local
villagers and students are looting and damaging the precious fossils
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** Biggest ever dinosaur footprints found in France
Imprints measuring up to 2 metres (6ft 6in) in diameter and stretching over
a vast area of land have been uncovered near the village of Plagne, 30 miles
west of Geneva
** Dinosaurs & Company
Sat Oct 17, 2009 - Sun Jan31, 2010. The Galt Museum & Archives presents the
family-friendly travelling exhibit "Dinosaurs & Company" this fall
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