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** Tons of dinosaur bones arrive in Philly for study
Sixteen tons of bones belonging to what researchers say is one of the
largest dinosaurs ever discovered arrived in Philadelphia in a large orange
shipping container on a Delaware River pier
** Researchers find soft tissue in dinosaur bone
team of researchers led by the N.C. State University scientist famed for the
controversial discovery of soft tissue in the fossilized bone of a
68-million-year old Tyrannosaurus rex in 2005 has found more soft tissue in
an even older dinosaur skeleton
** House backs naming paluxysaurus official dinosaur of Texas
The Texas House found a new way to resurrect dinosaur drama while debating a
new official state dinosaur on Thursday
** Utah Fossils Get Blasted
When researchers at Utah's Dinosaur National Monument were frustrated by the
impenetrable rock thought to be encasing rare dinosaur fossils, they tried
everything to get to the bones
** Dinosaur Demise Came 300,000 Years After Crater, Scientists Say
New clues at other sites in Mexico showed that the extinction must have
occurred 300,000 years after the Chicxulub impact and that even larger
asteroids may not be the purveyors of doom they're thought to be
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** Dinosaurs Lived in the Arctic
Witness the team's latest find, a diverse stash of dinosaur fossils laid
down just a few million years before the big impact, along what's now the
Kakanaut River of north-eastern Russia
** Dinosaur footprint fossils face the triple threats
Dinosaur footprint fossils discovered in Yongjing County in the
north-western province of Gansu are significant on a global scale
** Other Fossil News - Arctic fossil shows how seals went from land to sea
Scientists in Canada's Arctic have discovered the fossil of a previously
unknown web-footed carnivore that helps explain how seals developed from
land-based mammals
** Dinosaurs in His Bones
The American Museum of Natural History's fossil halls, including its two
famous dinosaur exhibits, are among the most popular attractions at the New
York City museum
** Newly discovered species tell tales of evolution
Researchers from Field Museum in Chicago have helped discover two new
dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert: a 5-foot-tall forebear of
Tyrannosaurus rex and a half-ton beaked dinosaur reminiscent of a giant
ostrich
** Dinosaurs Return From Sands Of Time
Innovators have brought back the dinosaurs in their fully glory - but this
time as intricately crafted sand sculptures
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** A fossil-fuelled future for Pioneer Valley?
Doyle and her cohorts have seized on thousands of prehistoric footprints
that pepper the fine-grained rock of the Pioneer Valley - an often
overlooked strip of Massachusetts at the foothills of the Berkshires - to
forge a local makeover
** How to Build a Dinosaur
What is amazing, if you stop to think about it, is that we got the main
points right about their shape and structure right off the bat
** A dinosaur tracker's lunch box
That's foulkii as in William Parker Foulke (1816-65), the lawyer and amateur
geologist who in 1858 unearthed a complete dinosaur skeleton in Haddonfield
** Conference
Registration has opened for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of
Vertebrate Palaeontology (SVP), and the 57th Symposium of Vertebrate
Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA), to be held in Bristol,
England, September 23-26, 2009
** Evolution Rocks!
Unearthing the past and understanding what it can tell us about the future
is the theme of this year's Fossil Festival, Evolution Rocks! to be held in
Lyme Regis (Dorset, UK)
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