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** Court upholds fossil hunters' right to teen T-Rex
An appeals court on Thursday upheld a group of fossil hunters' claim to the
remains of Tinker the teenage T-rex, meaning the remote South Dakota county
where it was discovered is entitled to just 10 percent of any sale proceeds
** Not Dinos But - Pterosaur fossil unveiled in Brazil
A well preserved fossil of a pterosaur, which dominated the skies in China
some 130 million years ago, has been unveiled in Brazil
** Jurassic bully: How Tyrannosaurus was a baby dinosaur killer
Like modern predators, theropods preferentially hunted and ate juvenile
animals leading to the absence of small, and especially young, dinosaurs in
the fossil record
** Dino bones, dino names left in limbo by suit
A Park County developer's hopes of naming a new dinosaur species were dashed
when the museum that was going to conduct a paleontological dig in Paradise
Valley filed a lawsuit against him
** DNA-like technique may help nab fossil thieves
Looters who plundered one of Utah's newest troves of dinosaur bones got away
with ribs, vertebrae and part of an ancient leg bone they had to bust apart
to remove
** What's lurking in the forest?
While the raptors were certainly killing machines who took down other
dinosaurs much larger than themselves - a lot of their prey fit into that
category - they actually only stood about five and a half feet
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** Below the KT: Discovery and Fervor in Montana's Dino Bone Yard
With a perfect combination of geologic and cultural conditions, silt-bearing
areas in Garfield County have surrendered messages from 65 million years ago
in the pre-HTML formats of Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops and duckbill
dinosaurs
** Only T. Rex footprint found near NM scout ranch
Deep in the tropical jungle of northern New Mexico, hiding under the
100-foot canopy of trees, the ancient giant predator left an unmistakable
mark when it got its foot stuck in the mud
** Strange But True File - Ledsaur: Dinosaur-shaped desk lamps
A Japanese company called Furniture Design Agra has created the Ledsaurs
[JP], a number of different dinosaur-shaped desk lamps
** Dinosaur Study Backs Controversial Find
In summary, we find nothing obviously wrong with the T. rex mass spectra:
the identified peptides seem consistent with a sample containing old, quite
possibly very ancient, bird-like bone, contaminated with only fairly
explicable proteins
** Roaring Reptiles
Inside Billings Productions' warehouse in McKinney, Texas workers stretch a
durable polyurethane material over a large metal framework, slowly giving
shape to a 20-foot-tall, 6,700-pound Tyrannosaurus rex
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** Other Fossil News - Tree-dwelling vertebrate lived 260 million years ago
More than 15 near-complete skeletons of the 260-million-year-old animal,
named Suminia getmanovi, reveal that it was built for an arboreal lifestyle
** Rome's Own Dinosaur Expert Says He Focuses On Ultra-Rare Items
A walk through his garage workshop and the rooms of his home resembles a
stroll through a history museum - better than a museum, actually, because
most museums don't have the budget to buy the sort of pieces that Stout
works with
** Bonus Dinosaur of the Week - Feathered Dinosaurs
The history of feathers in dinosaurs is an absolutely fascinating one, but
something in which much of our knowledge has arisen within the last decade
and a half
** Annual Fossil Fest!
Raymond M. Alf Museum of Palaeontology, 1175 West Baseline Road, Claremont,
CA 91711
** Flugsaurier 2010
Third International Symposium on Pterosaurs. 5-10 August, 2010, Beijing,
China
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