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** Dinosaurs Decoded
Groundbreaking work by famed palaeontologist Jack Horner, Mark Goodwin, and
others reveals dinosaur underwent extreme transformations as they grew
** 8-Horned T. Rex Cousin Found - Dinosaur Was "Ballerina"
A well-preserved skull and a near-complete skeleton from the new species of
eight-horned, long-snouted carnivore - dubbed Alioramus altai - were
unearthed in 2001 in Mongolia
** Experts piece together 'Banjo' the dinosaur
They have been working at a site west of Winton on a three-week dig, looking
for more bones from 'Banjo' - the most complete meat-eating dinosaur ever
found in Australia
** Fossils of new herbivorous dinosaur species found in Japan
Fossils discovered in Ishikawa prefecture in a layer of earth dating from
the early Cretaceous period around 130 million years ago have turned out to
be those of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur
** Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago...or did they?
Connective tissue decomposes and deconstructs over time, such that DNA
should not survive at all, even if the creature was in existence only 50,000
years ago
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** Samson remains unsold
A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex is still looking for a home after bidders
failed to meet the minimum price today at a Las Vegas auction
** The Kriegsteini dinosaur
About nine years ago, Kriegstein travelled to the Liaoning province of China
where he unearthed a feathered dinosaur while on a paleontological dig. He's
also been to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia with palaeontologist Phil Curry
** Other Fossil News - Ancient Shark Gang Fed on Giant Plesiosaurs
Some 85 million years ago in a shallow ocean, a handful of miniature great
white sharks were pigging out on the carcass of a giant marine reptile
called a plesiosaur
** Nest of dinosaur eggs found in India
Geologists in Tamil Nadu, India, said a trove of dinosaur eggs was peeping
out of the sand beds on grazing land in plain sight as they walked by
** Throat infection may have brought down T. rex
Wolff and his team propose a much more prosaic cause for Sue's decline: a
disease called trichomonosis that infects modern birds of prey
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** Creditors try to seize Argentine dinosaur in Germany
The embargo, which enabled creditors to keep with the remains of
"Huenculensis Argentinosaurus, the largest herbivore that ever lived on the
planet, failed because the collection does not belong to the Argentine
government, holder of the debt, but to several Argentine provinces
** Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers'
The new fossils, which come from two separate locations, are in most cases
about 10 million years older than the German bird discovered in the late
19th Century See also Peacock-sized creature predates the oldest known bird
** Enning earth reveals dinosaur
A rug spread on the central Meade County prairie bears some preliminary
results of a three-week dig a mile west of Enning
** Dinosaur discoveries
A selected checklist of this year's discoveries from the UK's Guardian
newspaper
** Dinosaur Eggs Found near Voronezh
Schoolchildren of Voronezh region have recently made a unique finding - they
unearthed fossil dinosaur eggs, one of which is perfectly preserved and is
of enormous value to science
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** Fossil Find Challenges Theories on T. Rex
Palaeontologists say that they had discovered what amounted to a miniature
prototype of Tyrannosaurus rex, complete with the oversize head, powerful
jaws, long legs - and, as every schoolchild knows, puny arms - that were
hallmarks of the king of the dinosaurs
** Guanling 2010 Symposium on Marine Vertebrates
Guanling County, Guizhou
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